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Scelidotheriinae
Taxonomy
Scelidotheriinae was named by Ameghino (1889).
It was reranked as the family Scelidotheridae by Ameghino (1891); it was reranked as the subfamily Scelidotheriidae by Paula Couto (1956).
It was assigned to Gravigrada by Ameghino (1891); to Mylodontoidea by Paula Couto (1956); and to Mylodontidae by Gaudin (1995), Zurita et al. (2004) and Miño-Boilini et al. (2009).
It was reranked as the family Scelidotheridae by Ameghino (1891); it was reranked as the subfamily Scelidotheriidae by Paula Couto (1956).
It was assigned to Gravigrada by Ameghino (1891); to Mylodontoidea by Paula Couto (1956); and to Mylodontidae by Gaudin (1995), Zurita et al. (2004) and Miño-Boilini et al. (2009).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1889 | Scelidotheriinae Ameghino |
| 1891 | Scelidotheridae Ameghino p. 38 |
| 1956 | Scelidotheriidae Paula Couto p. 101 |
| 1995 | Scelidotheriinae Gaudin |
| 2004 | Scelidotheriinae Zurita et al. |
| 2009 | Scelidotheriinae Miño-Boilini et al. p. 375 |
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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.
Subfm. †Scelidotheriinae Ameghino 1889
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G. †Amnotherium Ameghino 1891
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†Amnotherium aculeatum Ameghino 1894
†Amnotherium declivum Ameghino 1894
†Amnotherium profundatum Ameghino 1891
G. †Catonyx Ameghino 1891
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†Catonyx chiliensis Lydekker 1886
†Catonyx cuvieri Lund 1839
†Catonyx tarijensis Ameghino 1891
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Invalid names: Scelidotherium capellini Gervais and Ameghino 1880 [synonym]
G. †Proscelidodon Bordas 1935
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†Proscelidodon gracillimus Rovereto 1914
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Invalid names: Elassotherium altirostre Cabrera 1939 [synonym], Proscelidodon almagroi Rovereto 1914 [synonym]
†Proscelidodon patrius Ameghino 1888
†Proscelidodon rothi Kraglievich 1923
Invalid names: Elassotherium Cabrera 1939 [synonym]
G. †Scelidodon Ameghino 1881
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†Scelidodon almagroi Rovereto 1914
†Scelidodon chiliense Lydekker 1886
†Scelidodon chiliensis Lydekker 1886
†Scelidodon gracillimus Rovereto 1914
†Scelidodon patrius Ameghino 1891
†Scelidodon pendolai Rovereto 1914
†Scelidodon piauiensis Guérin and Faure 2004
†Scelidodon rothi Ameghino 1908
†Scelidodon tarijensis Gervais and Ameghino 1880
G. †Scelidotherium Owen 1839
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†Scelidotherium australis Moreno 1888
†Scelidotherium bravardi Lydekker 1886
†Scelidotherium chapalmalense Ameghino 1908
†Scelidotherium cuvieri Lund 1839
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Invalid names: Megalonyx bucklandii Lund 1839 [synonym], Megalonyx minutus Lund 1839 [synonym], Platonyx brongniartii Lund 1842 [synonym], Platonyx owenii Lund 1842 [synonym], Scelidodon wingei Kraglievich 1923 [synonym]
†Scelidotherium elegans Moreno 1888
†Scelidotherium laevidens Moreno and Mercerat 1891
†Scelidotherium leptocephalum Owen 1839
†Scelidotherium modicum Ameghino 1885
†Scelidotherium patrium Ameghino 1888
†Scelidotherium pozzii Moreno 1888
†Scelidotherium reyesi Hoffstetter 1952
†Scelidotherium tarijense Gervais 1855
G. †Sibyllotherium Scillato-Yané and Carlini 1998
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†Sibyllotherium guenguelianum Scillato-Yané and Carlini 1998
G. †Valgipes Gervais 1874
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†Valgipes bucklandi Lund 1839
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Invalid names: Platyonyx bucklandi Lund 1842 [replaced], Valgipes deformis Gervais 1874 [synonym]
Invalid names: Myrmecophaga gigantea Lund 1839 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. R. Miño-Boilini et al. 2009 | Skull low, long and narrow; dental formula 5/4 with tooth rows parallel; no modification of first cheek tooth into caniniform and no diastema between first and second teeth; M1 elliptical in cross section; quadrangular and antero-posteriorly compressed femur, with concave facet of the astragalus for the cuboid astragalus with concave surface for cuboit in advanced genera (PASCUAL et al. 1966; MCDONALD 1987). |