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Numidotherium savagei

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Numidotheriidae

Taxonomy
Numidotherium savagei was named by Court (1995). Its type specimen is 6821/10 (University of Bristol), a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dur At-Talah (west of the escarpment) - 68.19, which is in a Bartonian/Eocene marginal marine conglomerate in Libya.

It was recombined as Arcanotherium savagei by Delmer (2009), Coster et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Numidotherium savagei Court
2009Arcanotherium savagei Delmer p. 563
2010Numidotherium savagei Sanders et al. p. 171
2012Arcanotherium savagei Coster 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
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderBarytherioidea
familyNumidotheriidae
genusNumidotheriumJaeger 1986
speciessavagei

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.

†Numidotherium savagei Court 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available