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Mixodectes

Mammalia - Mixodectidae

Taxonomy

Mixodectes was named by Cope (1883). Its type is Mixodectes pungens. It is the type genus of Mixodectidae.

It was assigned to Mixodectidae by Cope (1883), Osborn (1902), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Van Valen (1967), Gunnell (1989) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

Species

M. malaris (syn. Oxyacodon tecumsae), M. pungens (syn. Olbodotes copei, M. crassiusculus) (type species)

Synonyms

Indrodon was named by Cope (1884). Its type is Indrodon malaris.

It was synonymized subjectively with Mixodectes by Matthew (1937), Van Valen (1967), Szalay (1969), Rigby (1980) and Gunnell (1989).

It was assigned to Anaptomorphidae by Cope (1884); to Limnotheriidae by Hay (1902); and to Mixodectidae by Hay (1930).
Olbodotes was named by Osborn (1902).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mixodectes by Hay (1930), Matthew (1937), Van Valen (1967), Szalay (1969), Rigby (1980) and Gunnell (1989).

It was assigned to Mixodectidae by Osborn (1902).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1883	Mixodectes Cope
1884	Indrodon Cope p. 318–319
1902	Mixodectes Hay p. 786
1902	Indrodon Hay p. 792
1902	Olbodotes Osborn pp. 204, 205
1902	Mixodectes Osborn p. 205
1902	Olbodotes Osborn pp. 205 - 206 figs. Figures 20, 20a
1930	Mixodectes Hay p. 447
1930	Indrodon Hay p. 448
1967	Mixodectes Van Valen
1989	Mixodectes Gunnell p. 56
1997	Mixodectes McKenna and Bell

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
superfamily	Mixodectoidea
family	Mixodectidae	Cope 1883
genus	Mixodectes

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. †Mixodectes Cope 1883

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†Mixodectes malaris Cope 1884

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Invalid names: Oxyacodon tecumsae Van Valen 1978 [synonym]

†Mixodectes pungens Cope 1883

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Invalid names: Mixodectes crassiusculus Cope 1883 [synonym], Olbodotes copei Osborn 1902 [synonym]

Invalid names: Indrodon Cope 1884 [synonym], Olbodotes Osborn 1902 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available