Lambdopsalidae Chow and Qi, 1978
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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00117.2014 |
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Felipe |
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Lambdopsalidae Chow and Qi, 1978 |
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Family Lambdopsalidae Chow and Qi, 1978
Type genus: Lambdopsalis Chow and Qi, 1978 .
Included genera: Sphenopsalis Matthew, Granger, and Simpson, 1928 .
Emended diagnosis.—Differ from other multituberculates, including the North American taeniolabidoids, in having a combination of the following features: tooth formula 2.0.1.2/1.0.1.2; upper incisors anteriorly positioned, simple and pointed, with circular cross-section, and lacking diastema between I2 and I3; long diastema between I3 and P4; M1 cusp formula 7:7:8, M2 cusp formula 1:2:4; occlusal surface of molars, particularly M2/m2 forming a sloped trench with a broad V-shape in distal view; M2 cusps crescentic, with the two medial cusps in the shape of an oblique, strong ridge and nearly twice the width of the lingual ones; lower incisor with circular cross-section; m1–2 cusp formula 5:4 and 3:2, respectively; m1 significantly narrower than m2, with distal end wedged in the notched mesial surface of m2; the two lingual cusps of m2 strongly crescentic and about twice the width of the buccal cusps.
Geographic and stratigraphic range.—Upper Paleocene (Gashatan) of Mongolia and China.
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