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Daeodon shoshonensis

Mammalia - Entelodontidae

Taxonomy

Daeodon shoshonensis was named by Cope (1878) [genotype: also said to be 1879]. Its type specimen is AMNH 7387, a mandible (mandibular symphysis), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was considered a nomen vanum by Albright (1991).

Synonyms

Dinohyus mento was named by Allen (1926) [generic assignment uncertain]. Its type locality is Ashley River (Miocene Marl), which is in a Miocene marine marl in South Carolina.

It was synonymized subjectively with Daeodon shoshonensis by Lucas et al. (1998); it was considered a nomen vanum by Brunet (1975), Albright (1999); it was recombined as Daeodon mento by Lucas et al. (1997), Albright et al. (2019).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1878	Daeodon shoshonensis Cope p. 77
1902	Daeodon shoshonensis Hay p. 633
1926	Dinohyus mento Allen
1997	Daeodon mento Lucas et al.
1998	Daeodon shoshonensis Foss and Fremd p. 65 fig. 3
1998	Daeodon shoshonensis Lucas et al. p. 427
1999	Daeodon shoshonensis Albright p. 37
2019	Daeodon mento Albright et al. p. 187

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
superfamily	Entelodontoidea	Lydekker 1883
family	Entelodontidae	Lydekker 1883
genus	Daeodon
species	shoshonensis

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.

†Daeodon shoshonensis Cope 1878

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Invalid names: Ammodon leidyanum Marsh in Cope 1868 [synonym], Dinohyus mento Allen 1926 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
E. D. Cope 1878	The canine teeth are very robust, as in the species of Elotherium. The inferior face ot the symphysis is not steeply inclined, and is quite elongate. It is narrowed near the bifurcation and expands to a rounded incisive border. The first incisor is narrower than the second and third, which are robust. There are two small mental foramina, the larger below the anterior root of the anterior premolar; the second below the anterior root of the second premolar.