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Harpagolestes
Taxonomy
Harpagolestes was named by Wortman (1901). Its type is Harpagolestes macrocephalus.
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Wortman (1901), Szalay and Gould (1966), Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Peterson (1919), Hay (1930), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Archibald (1998), Gingerich (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Tomiya et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Mesonychinae by Wortman (1901), Szalay and Gould (1966), Zhou et al. (1995); and to Mesonychidae by Peterson (1919), Hay (1930), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Archibald (1998), Gingerich (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Tomiya et al. (2021).
Species
H. brevipes, H. immanis, H. koreanicus, H. leei, H. leotensis, H. macrocephalus (type species), H. orientalis, H. uintensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Harpagolestes Wortman p. 286 |
| 1919 | Harpagolestes Peterson p. 41 |
| 1930 | Harpagolestes Hay p. 469 |
| 1966 | Harpagolestes Szalay and Gould p. 140 |
| 1988 | Harpagolestes Carroll |
| 1995 | Harpagolestes Zhou et al. p. 397 |
| 1997 | Harpagolestes McKenna and Bell p. 367 |
| 1998 | Harpagolestes Archibald p. 318 |
| 1998 | Harpagolestes Gingerich p. 427 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2001 | Harpagolestes Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2021 | Harpagolestes Tomiya et al. |
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G. †Harpagolestes Wortman 1901
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†Harpagolestes brevipes Thorpe 1923
†Harpagolestes immanis Matthew 1909
†Harpagolestes koreanicus Shikama 1943
†Harpagolestes leei Jin 2005
†Harpagolestes leotensis Peterson 1931
†Harpagolestes macrocephalus Wortman 1901
†Harpagolestes orientalis Szalay and Gould 1966
†Harpagolestes uintensis Scott 1888
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available