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Tapirus greslebini

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Tapirus greslebini was named by Rusconi (1934). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Villa Ballester, which is in a Pliocene marine sandstone in Argentina.

It was recombined as Tapirus (Tapiralum) greslebini by Rusconi (1934), Rusconi (1934).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. olivaresi, T. telleri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1934Tapirus (Tapiralum) greslebini Rusconi
1934Tapirus greslebini Rusconi p. 25
2013Tapirus greslebini Holanda and Ferrero

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusTapirus
speciesgreslebini

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.

†Tapirus greslebini Rusconi 1934
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: amphibiousg
Diet: browserg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-04 10:30:41
Modified: 2012-04-16 20:18:34
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available