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Taxonomy
Peltephilus was named by Ameghino (1887). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Peltephilidae, Peltephilinae.
It was assigned to Stegotheridae by Ameghino (1891); to Peltephilinae by Lydekker (1894); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988); to Peltephilidae by Croft et al. (2007) and Shockey (2017); and to Peltephilidae by Ameghino (1894), Ameghino (1897), McKenna and Bell (1997), Kramarz et al. (2010) and Vizcaíno et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Stegotheridae by Ameghino (1891); to Peltephilinae by Lydekker (1894); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988); to Peltephilidae by Croft et al. (2007) and Shockey (2017); and to Peltephilidae by Ameghino (1894), Ameghino (1897), McKenna and Bell (1997), Kramarz et al. (2010) and Vizcaíno et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Peltephilus Ameghino |
| 1891 | Peltephilus Ameghino p. 40 |
| 1894 | Peltephilus Ameghino p. 177 |
| 1894 | Peltephilus Lydekker p. 67 |
| 1897 | Peltephilus Ameghino p. 509 |
| 1988 | Peltephilus Carroll |
| 1997 | Peltephilus McKenna and Bell p. 86 |
| 2007 | Peltephilus Croft et al. p. 785 |
| 2010 | Peltephilus Kramarz et al. |
| 2017 | Peltephilus Shockey |
| 2022 | Peltephilus Vizcaíno et al. |
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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.
G. †Peltephilus Ameghino 1887
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†Peltephilus depressus Ameghino 1897
†Peltephilus ferox Ameghino 1891
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Invalid names: Peltephilus clarazianus Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym]
†Peltephilus giganteus Ameghino 1894
†Peltephilus grandis Moreno and Mercerat 1891
†Peltephilus granosus Ameghino 1902
†Peltephilus nanus Ameghino 1898
†Peltephilus protervus Ameghino 1897
†Peltephilus pumilus Ameghino 1887
†Peltephilus rarus Ameghino 1891
†Peltephilus strepens Ameghino 1887
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Invalid names: Peltephilus heusseri Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym]
†Peltephilus undulatus Ameghino 1897
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available