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Hydotherium dobsoni

Mammalia - Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae

Taxonomy
Hydotherium dobsoni was named by Gregory and Simpson (1926). Its type specimen is AMNH 21702, a partial skull (complete anterior portion of interlocked skull and lower jaws, broken off just back of M 3/3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Hydotherium dobsoni Gregory and Simpson pp. 11-13 figs. 11-12
1979Hydotherium dobsoni Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 183

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
orderDeltatheroidaKielan-Jaworowska 1982
familyDeltatheridiidae
genusHydotherium
speciesdobsoni

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Hydotherium dobsoni Gregory and Simpson 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Diet: carnivoref
Diet 2: durophagef
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-09-07 09:03:54
Modified: 2005-09-07 11:21:30
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hopson 1973, Fox and Naylor 1995, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mongolia (Omnogov) Hydotherium dobsoni (type locality: 46152)