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Numidotherium savagei

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Numidotheriidae

Taxonomy
Numidotherium savagei was named by Court (1995). Its type specimen is 6821/10 (University of Bristol), a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dur At-Talah (west of the escarpment) - 68.19, which is in a Bartonian/Eocene marginal marine conglomerate in Libya.

It was recombined as Arcanotherium savagei by Delmer (2009) and Coster et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Numidotherium savagei Court
2009Arcanotherium savagei Delmer p. 563
2010Numidotherium savagei Sanders et al. p. 171
2012Arcanotherium savagei Coster et al.

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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()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderBarytherioidea
familyNumidotheriidae
genusNumidotheriumJaeger 1986
speciessavagei

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.

†Numidotherium savagei Court 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: grazerf
Diet 2: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:32:09
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:32:09
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 41.30000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene41.3 - 33.9Libya Numidotherium savagei (type locality: 174667)