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Taxonomy
Taperidae was named by Gray (1821) [also attributed to Burnett 1830]. It is extant. Its type is Tapirus. It was considered monophyletic by Colbert (2005).
It was reranked as the tribe Tapirina by Gray (1825), Bonaparte (1850); it was corrected as Tapiridae by Cope (1881), Flower (1883), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Ameghino (1902), Hay (1902), Scott (1913), Cattoi (1957), Radinsky (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Schoch (1984), Carroll (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Holbrook (1999), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Colbert (2005), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Hulbert (2010), Holanda et al. (2011), Eshelman et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Trichenae by Gray (1821); to Elephantidae by Gray (1825); to Rhinocerotidae by Bonaparte (1850); to Perissodactyla by Cope (1889); to Perissodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Ungulata by Ameghino (1902); to Chelodactyla by Scott (1913); to Tapiroidea by Hay (1902), Cattoi (1957), Radinsky (1963), Schoch (1984), Carroll (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Holbrook (1999), Colbert (2005), Holanda et al. (2011); and to Perissodactyla by Cope (1881), Flower (1883), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Nowak (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Hulbert (2010), Eshelman et al. (2018).
It was reranked as the tribe Tapirina by Gray (1825), Bonaparte (1850); it was corrected as Tapiridae by Cope (1881), Flower (1883), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Ameghino (1902), Hay (1902), Scott (1913), Cattoi (1957), Radinsky (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Schoch (1984), Carroll (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Holbrook (1999), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Colbert (2005), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Hulbert (2010), Holanda et al. (2011), Eshelman et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Trichenae by Gray (1821); to Elephantidae by Gray (1825); to Rhinocerotidae by Bonaparte (1850); to Perissodactyla by Cope (1889); to Perissodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Ungulata by Ameghino (1902); to Chelodactyla by Scott (1913); to Tapiroidea by Hay (1902), Cattoi (1957), Radinsky (1963), Schoch (1984), Carroll (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Holbrook (1999), Colbert (2005), Holanda et al. (2011); and to Perissodactyla by Cope (1881), Flower (1883), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Nowak (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Hulbert (2010), Eshelman et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1821 | Taperidae Gray p. 306 |
| 1825 | Tapirina Gray p. 342 |
| 1850 | Tapirina Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1881 | Tapiridae Cope p. 395 |
| 1883 | Tapiridae Flower p. 185 |
| 1889 | Tapiridae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Tapiridae Flower and Lydekker p. 90 |
| 1902 | Tapiridae Ameghino |
| 1902 | Tapiridae Hay p. 626 |
| 1913 | Tapiridae Scott p. 291 |
| 1957 | Tapiridae Cattoi p. 16 |
| 1963 | Tapiridae Radinsky p. 9 |
| 1980 | Tapiridae Kurten and Anderson p. 292 |
| 1984 | Tapiridae Schoch p. 3 |
| 1988 | Tapiridae Carroll |
| 1989 | Tapiridae Prothero and Schoch p. 534 |
| 1991 | Tapiridae Nowak |
| 1999 | Tapiridae Holbrook p. 346 |
| 2001 | Tapiridae Sach and Heizmann p. 30 |
| 2005 | Tapiridae Colbert p. 5 |
| 2006 | Tapiridae Hulbert and Whitmore p. 18 |
| 2010 | Tapiridae Hulbert p. 78 |
| 2011 | Tapiridae Holanda et al. p. 113 |
| 2018 | Tapiridae Eshelman et al. p. 9 |
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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.
Fm. Taperidae Gray 1821 [tapir]
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
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