Mlanyama RASMUSSEN et GUTIÉRREZ, 2009
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Genus Mlanyama RASMUSSEN et GUTIÉRREZ, 2009
T y p e s p e c i e s. Mlanyama sugu RASMUSSEN et GUTIÉRREZ, 2009 (type locality: Nakwai , Kenya). Holotype is left dentary with symphysis, incisor alveoli, canine alveolus, p1 – m1, alveolus for m2, and the anterior portion of right dentary with symphysis and anterior alveoli, with a fragment of the canine ( KNM-NW 46832 ).
A g e. Early Miocene according to Reynoso (2014)
(originally correlated to the Late Oligocene).
D i a g n o s i s. See Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2009).
D i s c u s s i o n. Mlanyama sugu differs from Anasinopa species by the broadening of the metastyle in the M1/ and the reduction and narrowing of the isthmus linking the protocone to the buccal cusps. The m/3 of M. sugu is very sectorial, with strong reduction of the talonid and absent metaconid, a cusp which is present but reduced in the other molars. Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2009) related it closely to Dissopsalis pyroclasticus in particular because of the transverse orientation of the anterior premolars.
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