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Acrochordus javanicus
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| node name Acrochordus javanicus Look for this name in NCBI Wikipedia Animal Diversity Web | ||
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recommended citations http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/fc-9 Head et al. 2016 |
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node minimum age 18.05 Ma The minimum age is based on dating of locality Y846 from the Kamlial Formation of the Siwalik Group on the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, which is the oldest record of Acrochordus dehmi (Head, 2002, 2005). | ||
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node maximum age 23.08 Ma The maximum age follows Head et al. (2007) based on the first occurrence of the genus from the Aquitanian Kharinadi Formation, Gujarat, India. | ||
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H-GSP 41555 | ||
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phylogenetic justification
Acrochordus dehmi is hypothesized to be the sister taxon to A. javanicus to the exclusion of A. arafurae or A. granulatus on the basis of parazygosphenal foramina located just ventrolaterally to the base of the zygosphene on the anterolateral surface of the neural arch (Head, 2005; Sanders et al., 2010). Acrochordus dehmi is placed within the genus Acrochordus on the basis of ventrally elongate and pendant synapophyses, hemispherical, vertically oriented and blade-like prezygapophyseal accessory processes, and multiple paracotylar foramina (Hoffstetter, 1964; Head, 2005). |
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phylogenetic reference(s)
Sanders, W. J., Gheerbrant, E., Harris, J. M., Saegusa, H. & Delmer, C. (2010) Proboscidea. In: Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, (Werdelin, L. & Sanders, W. J., eds.). pp. 161-251. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Hoffstetter, R. 1964. Les serpents du Néogène du Pakistan (couches des Siwaliks). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Série 7, 6:467-474.
Head, J.J. 2005. Snakes of the Siwalik Group (Miocene of Pakistan): systematics and relationship to environmental change. Palaeontologia Electronica, 8(1):16A.
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