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Decennatherium rex

Osteichthyes - Giraffidae

Taxonomy
Decennatherium rex was named by Rios et al. (2017) [LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C5E9530A-6C05-4979-9DE7-FC9533CC22E4]. Its type specimen is BAT10’13.E2-69, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerro de Batallones 10 (BAT10), which is in a MN 10 terrestrial horizon in Spain.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Decennatherium rex Rios et al. p. 7 figs. 2-41

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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
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Ruminantiamorpha
—Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
—Pecora()
superfamilyGiraffomorpha
familyGiraffidae
genusDecennatheriumCrusafont Pairo 1952
speciesrex

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.

†Decennatherium rex Rios et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available