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Cardiatherium calingastaense

Mammalia - Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae

Taxonomy
Cardiatherium calingastaense was named by Cerdeño et al. (2019). Its type specimen is INGEO-PV 87, a skull (skull with associated mandible, and some fragmentary postcranial remains of the same individual), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Right side of the Candelaria Creek, which is in a Huayquerian wet floodplain siltstone in the Las Floras Formation of Argentina.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. orientalis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2019Cardiatherium calingastaense Cerdeño 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
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
—CtenohystricaHuchon et al. 2000
infraorderHystricognathi(Tullberg 1899)
—Caviomorpha(Wood and Patterson 1955)
superfamilyCavioideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyHydrochoeridaeGill 1872
genusCardiatherium
speciescalingastaense

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.

†Cardiatherium calingastaense Cerdeño et al. 2019
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available