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Australodelphis mirus
Taxonomy
Australodelphis mirus was named by Fordyce et al. (2002). Its type specimen is AGSO CPC 25730, a partial skull (incomplete skull lacking basicranium, incomplete fused right and left mandibles, right and left tympano-periotics), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Marine Plain, which is in a Zanclean marine siltstone in the Sorsdal Formation of Antarctica. It is the type species of Australodelphis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2002 | Australodelphis mirus Fordyce et al. pp. 40-49 figs. 2-5 |
| 2014 | Australodelphis mirus Murakami et al. p. 492 figs. Table 1 |
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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.
†Australodelphis mirus Fordyce et al. 2002
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||