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Ankalagon
Taxonomy
Ankalagon was named by Van Valen (1980) [replacement name for Ancalogon]. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Van Valen (1980), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Gingerich (1998), Archibald (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001).
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Van Valen (1980), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Gingerich (1998), Archibald (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Ancalagon Van Valen |
| 1980 | Ankalagon Van Valen |
| 1988 | Ankalagon Carroll |
| 1995 | Ankalagon Zhou et al. p. 397 |
| 1997 | Ankalagon McKenna and Bell p. 367 |
| 1998 | Ankalagon Archibald p. 318 |
| 1998 | Ankalagon Gingerich p. 427 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2001 | Ankalagon Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2002 | Ancalagon Sepkoski |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Archibald 1998, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available