Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Synonym: Eotrigonias Wood 1927
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1880. A new genus of tapiroids. The American Naturalist 14:382-383
Parent taxon: Hyracodontidae according to H. Wang et al. 2016
See also Alroy 2002, Carroll 1988, Cope 1881, Hanson 1989, Hay 1902, Holbrook 1999, Lofgren et al. 2020, Peterson 1919, Prothero 1998, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Radinsky 1966, Radinsky 1967, Scott 1883, Scott 1913, Simpson 1945 and Wood 1927
Sister taxa: Allaceropinae, Alloceropinae, Ardynia, Epitriplopus, Hyracodon, Hyracodontinae, Ilianodon, Pataecops, Praeaceratherium, Prohyracodon, Rhodopagus, Triplopides, Triplopodinae, Ulania, Yimengia
Subtaxa: Eotrigonias ergiliinensis Triplopus cubitalis Triplopus implicatus Triplopus jeminaiensis Triplopus mergenensis Triplopus obliquidens Triplopus rhinocerinus Triplopus woodi
Type: Triplopus cubitalis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (4 collections), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), United States (28: California, Colorado, Montana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 34 collections including 39 occurrences
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