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Lophiodontidae

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae

Taxonomy

Lophiodontidae was named by Gill (1872). It is not extant. Its type is Lophiodon.

It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Cope (1881); to Perissodactyla by Cope (1889); to Perissodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Chelodactyla by Scott (1913); to Ancylopoda by Hooker (1986); to Tapiroidea by Hay (1902), Radinsky (1963) and Carroll (1988); to Lophiodontoidea by Prothero and Schoch (1989); and to Chalicotherioidea by Hooker and Dashzeveg (2004).

Subtaxa

Atalonodon, Lophiaspis, Lophiodochoerus, Lophiodontinae, Paleomoropus, Paralophiodon (syn. Rhinocerolophiodon)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1872	Lophiodontidae Gill
1881	Lophiodontidae Cope p. 381
1889	Lophiodontidae Cope p. 876
1891	Lophiodontidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90
1902	Lophiodontidae Hay p. 624
1913	Lophiodontidae Scott p. 291
1963	Lophiodontidae Radinsky p. 9
1986	Lophiodontidae Hooker p. 374
1988	Lophiodontidae Carroll
1989	Lophiodontidae Prothero and Schoch p. 532
2004	Lophiodontidae Hooker and Dashzeveg p. 1375

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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	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes

Rank	Name	Author
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Panperissodactyla
superorder	Perissodactylamorpha
order	Perissodactyla	()
—	Tapiromorpha	(Haeckel 1873)
—	Ancylopoda	()
superfamily	Chalicotherioidea	Gill 1872
family	Lophiodontidae	Gill 1872
family	Lophiodontidae	Gill 1872

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. †Lophiodontidae Gill 1872

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G. †Atalonodon Dal-Piaz 1929

G. †Lophiaspis Depéret 1910

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†Lophiaspis baicherei Deperet 1910

†Lophiaspis maurettei Depéret 1910

†Lophiaspis occitanicus Deperet 1910

G. †Lophiodochoerus Lemoine 1880

Subfm. †Lophiodontinae Cope 1881

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G. †Eolophiodon Robinet et al. 2015