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Gobiatherium
Taxonomy
Gobiatherium was named by Osborn and Granger (1932). Its type is Gobiatherium mirificum. It was considered monophyletic by Osborn and Granger (1932).
It was assigned to Uintatheriidae by Osborn and Granger (1932), Lucas and Schoch (1998); and to Gobiatheriinae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985), Lucas (2001).
It was assigned to Uintatheriidae by Osborn and Granger (1932), Lucas and Schoch (1998); and to Gobiatheriinae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985), Lucas (2001).
Species
G. minutum, G. mirificum (syn. G. major) (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1932 | Gobiatherium Osborn and Granger p. 10 |
| 1961 | Gobiatherium Wheeler p. 56 |
| 1985 | Gobiatherium Schoch and Lucas p. 42 |
| 1998 | Gobiatherium Lucas and Schoch p. 285 |
| 2001 | Gobiatherium Lucas |
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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.
G. †Gobiatherium Osborn and Granger 1932
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†Gobiatherium minutum Cheng and Ma 1990
†Gobiatherium mirificum Osborn and Granger 1932
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Invalid names: Gobiatherium major Qi 1987 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas 1985 | Same as that for Gobiatheriinae. [Uintatheriids without upper canines and with lower canines greatly reduced; P2/ with a prominent cingular cusp on its anterola bial corner; skull Iong, thin and shallow with a flat sagittal region; nasals strongly arehed with a bony septum connecting their anterior ends to the pre maxillae; zygomatic arehes broad and fiare-out in the region of the glenoid fossae; lower jaw Iong and shallow with a tall ascending rarnus and lacking an inframandibular flange; metaearpals relatively sien der and elongate (Node 7).] |
Measurements
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| References: Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Lucas and Schoch 1998, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Middle Eocene or 56.00000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Eocene | China (Hubei) | G. minutum (175808) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | G. mirificum (75275 174920) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | China (Henan) | G. sp. (46196) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | China (Inner Mongolia) | G. major (195165) | |
| Arshantan | Kazakhstan | G. mirificum (31009) | |
| Arshantan | China (Nei Mongol) | G. mirificum (72184) | |
| Middle Eocene | Kyrgyzstan | G. mirificum (177050 177051) |