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Mesaxonia (disused)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Taxonomy
Mesaxonia was named by Marsh (1884). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Perissodactyla by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the suborder Mesaxonia by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

It was assigned to Ungulata by Gregory (1910); and to Perissodactyla by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1884Mesaxonia Marsh
1910Mesaxonia Gregory p. 466
1989Mesaxonia Prothero and Schoch p. 531

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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
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
suborderMesaxonia(Marsh 1884)
suborderMesaxonia(Marsh 1884)

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.

Subor. Mesaxonia Marsh 1884
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available