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Merycoidodontoidea (disused)
Taxonomy
Merycoidodontoidea is a superfamily.
It was synonymized subjectively with Oreodontoidea by Scott (1940).
It was assigned to Ancodonta by Thorpe (1937); to Suiformes by Ferrusquia-Villafranca (1969); to Tylopoda by Carroll (1988); and to Artiodactyla by Emery et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Oreodontoidea by Scott (1940).
It was assigned to Ancodonta by Thorpe (1937); to Suiformes by Ferrusquia-Villafranca (1969); to Tylopoda by Carroll (1988); and to Artiodactyla by Emery et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Merycoidodontoidea Thorpe p. 31 |
| 1969 | Merycoidodontoidea Ferrusquia-Villafranca |
| 1988 | Merycoidodontoidea Carroll |
| 2016 | Merycoidodontoidea Emery et al. pp. e1041970-2 |
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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.
Superfm. †Merycoidodontoidea
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
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