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Meniscotheriinae
Taxonomy
Meniscotheriidae was named by Cope (1882). Its type is Meniscotherium.
It was misspelled as Meniscotheridae by López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes (1999); it was reranked as the subfamily Meniscotheriinae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Condylarthra by Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Condylarthra by Hay (1902), Gregory (1910); to Condylarthri by Jaekel (1911); to Condylarthra by Carroll (1988), López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes (1999); and to Phenacodontidae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
It was misspelled as Meniscotheridae by López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes (1999); it was reranked as the subfamily Meniscotheriinae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Condylarthra by Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Condylarthra by Hay (1902), Gregory (1910); to Condylarthri by Jaekel (1911); to Condylarthra by Carroll (1988), López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes (1999); and to Phenacodontidae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Meniscotheriidae Cope |
| 1889 | Meniscotheriidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Meniscotheriidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90 |
| 1902 | Meniscotheriidae Hay p. 605 |
| 1910 | Meniscotheriidae Gregory p. 466 |
| 1911 | Meniscotheridae Jaekel p. 238 |
| 1988 | Meniscotheriidae Carroll |
| 1998 | Meniscotheriinae Archibald p. 321 |
| 1999 | Meniscotheridae López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes p. 691 |
| 2017 | Meniscotheriinae Halliday et al. p. 527 |
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Subfm. †Meniscotheriinae Cope 1882
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G. †Ectocion Cope 1882
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†Ectocion cedrus Thewissen 1990
†Ectocion collinus Russell 1929
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Invalid names: Gidleyina montanensis Gidley 1935 [synonym], Gidleyina silberlingi Gidley 1935 [synonym], Gidleyina wyomingensis Gazin 1956 [synonym], Meniscotherium semicingulatum Russell 1929 [synonym], Tetraclaenodon superior Simpson 1935 [synonym]
†Ectocion ignotum Novacek et al. 1991
†Ectocion major Patterson and West 1973
†Ectocion mediotuber Thewissen 1990
†Ectocion nanabeensis Beard and Dawson 2009
†Ectocion parvus Granger 1915
†Ectocion stockeyae Montellano-Ballesteros et al. 2021
†Ectocion superstes Granger 1915
Invalid names: Gidleyina Simpson 1935 [synonym], Prosthecion Patterson and West 1973 [synonym]
G. †Meniscotherium Cope 1874
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†Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
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Invalid names: Hyracops socialis Marsh 1892 [synonym], Meniscotherium robustum Thorpe 1934 [synonym], Meniscotherium terraerubrae Cope 1881 [synonym]
†Meniscotherium priscum Granger 1915
†Meniscotherium tapiacitum Cope 1882
Invalid names: Hyracops Marsh 1892 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available