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Copelemur australotutus

Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

Taxonomy
Copelemur australotutus was named by Beard (1988). Its type specimen is USNM 22261, a mandible (left dentary fragment preserving roots or alveoli for C-P2, crowns of P3-M1), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fossil Butte (Upper), which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Copelemur australotutus Beard p. 456

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—Euarchonta
orderPrimates
suborderStrepsirrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorderAdapiformesHoffstetter 1977
superfamilyAdapoideaTrouessart 1879
familyNotharctidaeTrouessart 1879
subfamilyNotharctinaeTrouessart 1879
genusCopelemur
speciesaustralotutus

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available