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Paciculus cedrus
Taxonomy
Paciculus cedrus was named by Korth (2014). Its type specimen is SDSM 56510, a mandible (right dentary with i1, m1–m3.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cedar Pass (SDSM V712), which is in a Whitneyan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of South Dakota.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Paciculus cedrus Korth p. 394 figs. 11A, B |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Paciculus cedrus Korth 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. W. Korth 2014 | Small species, near size of P. woodi (Mac- donald, 1963); cheek teeth lower-crowned than all other species of the genus; anteroconid on m1 never continuous with protoconid; buccal mesolophids variably present on m1–m2; mesolophid commonly continuous with posterior side of metaconid on lower molars. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||