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Ectocion osbornianus

Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

Taxonomy
Oligotomus osbornianus was named by Cope (1882). It is the type species of Ectocion.

It was misspelled as Ectocion osbornianum by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Ectocion osbornianus by Cope (1883), Cope (1885), Granger (1915), West (1976), Gingerich (1980), Thewissen (1990) and Rose et al. (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Oligotomus osbornianus Cope p. 182
1883Ectocion osbornianus Cope
1885Ectocion osbornianus Cope
1902Ectocion osbornianum Hay p. 605
1915Ectocion osbornianus Granger
1915Ectocion ralstonensis Granger
1956Ectocion ralstonensis Gazin
1960Ectocion ralstonensis McKenna
1976Ectocion osbornianus West
1980Ectocion osbornianus Gingerich
1990Ectocion osbornianus Thewissen
2012Ectocion osbornianus Rose et al.

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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
Phenacodonta
familyPhenacodontidaeCope 1881
subfamilyMeniscotheriinae(Cope 1882)
genusEctocionCope 1882
speciesosbornianus()

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.

Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882
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Invalid names: Ectocion ralstonensis Granger 1915 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available