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Stegotetrabelodon syrticus

Osteichthyes - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Taxonomy
Stegotetrabelodon syrticus was named by Petrocchi (1941). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is As Sahabi, Sirtica, which is in a Messinian coastal horizon in the Sahabi Formation of Libya.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchi p. 110 figs. Fig. 1D
1941Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchii
1943Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchi p. 69
1972Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Coppens p. 2963
1995Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Kalb and Frohelich p. 732 figs. Figure 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
superorderAfrotheria
—Paenungulatomorpha
superorderPaenungulata
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderElephantiformesTassy 1988
—ElephantimorphaTassy and Shoshani 1997
—ElephantidaTassy and Shoshani 1997
superfamilyElephantoidea
familyElephantidae
genusStegotetrabelodonPetrocchi 1941
speciessyrticus

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.

†Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchi 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available