Biology:Cunampaia
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Cunampaia is a dubious genus of extinct mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils have been found from the Divisadero Largo Formation of Mendoza Province, Argentina , and date back to the Divisaderan to Tinguirirican regional South American Land Mammal Age of the Late Eocene epoch.[1]
Description
Originally it was regarded as a gruiform bird, being only recently reassigned as a crocodylomorph.[2] In 1968 it was placed in its own family, Cunampaiidae, which falls within the suborder Cariamae.[3] Despite this classification, it has frequently been referred to as a phorusrhacid.[4]
Due to the lack of autapomorphies associated with the genus, Cunampaia is now considered to be a nomen dubium. As a result of this, its position is indeterminate within Mesoeucrocodylia.
References
- ↑ Cunampaia at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Agnolín, F.; Pais, D. F. (2006). "Revisión de Cunampaia simplex Rusconi, 1946 (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia; non Aves) del terciario Inferior de Mendoza, Argentina". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 8: 35–40. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.8.349.
- ↑ Cracraft, J. (1968). "A review of the Bathornithidae (Aves, Gruiformes), with remarks on the relationships of the suborder Cariamae". American Museum Novitates (2326): 1–46.
- ↑ Alvarenga, H. M. F.; Höfling, E. (2003). "Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 43 (4): 55–91. doi:10.1590/s0031-10492003000400001.
Wikidata ☰ Q5194196 entry
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