Project 3871: P.M. Velazco, A.J. Buczek, E. Hoffman, D.K. Hoffman, M.A. O'Leary, M.J. Novacek. 2022. Combined data analysis of fossil and living mammals: a Paleogene sister taxon of Placentalia and the antiquity of Marsupialia. Cladistics. 38:1-15.

Morphobank media number
M726028

Taxonomic name
Orycteropus afer

Specimen
Orycteropus afer (unvouchered)

View
upper toothrow occlusal

Side represented
right side

Media loaded by
Maureen O'Leary

Copyright holder
O. Thomas/Royal Society of London

Copyright information
Copyright expired or work otherwise in public domain

Bibliographic Reference
Thomas, O. 1889. A milk dentition in Orycteropus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Vol. 47, pp. 246-248.

Media notes
Milk dentition. Thomas says regarding the large tooth third from right “base is not closed”, p.246 but decides it must be a deciduous (rather than early erupting permanent tooth) because it is completely calcified (p. 247)

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July 15 2009 at 22:58:54

This media file was first entered in MorphoBank as M314133 in P1086.

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