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Hukoutherium
Taxonomy
Hukoutherium was named by Chow et al. (1973).
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Chow et al. (1973), Chow et al. (1977), Qi and Huang (1982), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Gingerich (1998).
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Chow et al. (1973), Chow et al. (1977), Qi and Huang (1982), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Gingerich (1998).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Hukoutherium Chow et al. |
| 1977 | Hukoutherium Chow et al. |
| 1982 | Hukoutherium Qi and Huang |
| 1988 | Hukoutherium Carroll |
| 1995 | Hukoutherium Zhou et al. p. 388 |
| 1997 | Hukoutherium McKenna and Bell p. 367 |
| 1998 | Hukoutherium Gingerich p. 427 figs. FIgure 1 |
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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. †Hukoutherium Chow et al. 1973
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†Hukoutherium ambigum Chow et al. 1973
†Hukoutherium shimemensis Qi and Huang 1982
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Archibald 1998 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Paleocene or 66.00000 to 61.66000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Paleocene | China (Shaanxi) | H. shimemensis (132651) | |
| Early/Lower Paleocene | China (Guangdong) | H. ambigum (140280 176607) |