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Pelycodus

Osteichthyes - Primates - Adapidae

Taxonomy
Pelycodus was named by Cope (1875). Its type is Prototomus jarrovii.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tomitherium by Cope (1876).

It was assigned to Quadrumana by Cope (1875); to Pseudolemuridae by Schlosser (1877); to Limnotheriidae by Hay (1902); to Notharctidae by Osborn (1902); to Notharctinae by Simpson (1940), Gingerich (1979); to Notharctinae by Franzen (1994); and to Adapidae by Matthew (1915), Gazin (1958), Gingerich and Simons (1977), Gingerich (1980), Gingerich and Haskin (1981), Beard (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997).

Species
P. danielsae (syn. P. schidelerorum), P. eppsi, P. jarrovii, P. savagei
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2015-07-26

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Pelycodus Cope p. 13
1877Pelycodus Schlosser p. 35
1902Pelycodus Hay p. 789
1902Pelycodus Osborn p. 192
1915Pelycodus Matthew
1940Pelycodus Simpson p. 202
1958Pelycodus Gazin
1977Pelycodus Gingerich and Simons
1979Pelycodus Gingerich p. 155
1980Pelycodus Gingerich p. 137
1981Pelycodus Gingerich and Haskin
1988Pelycodus Beard
1994Pelycodus Franzen p. 115
1997Pelycodus McKenna and Bell

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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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—Euarchonta
orderPrimates
suborderStrepsirrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorderAdapiformesHoffstetter 1977
familyAdapidaeTrouessart 1879
genusPelycodus

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.

G. †Pelycodus Cope 1875
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†Pelycodus danielsae Froehlich and Lucas 1991
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Invalid names: Pelycodus schidelerorum Kihm 1992 [synonym]
†Pelycodus eppsi Cooper 1932
†Pelycodus jarrovii Cope 1874
†Pelycodus savagei Gingerich 1977
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available