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Deltatheroides cretacicus

Mammalia - Deltatheroida

Taxonomy
Deltatheroides cretacicus was named by Gregory and Simpson (1926). Its type specimen is AMNH 21700, a partial skull (anterior part of a skull with C-M3, badly worn and broken), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Deltatheroides.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory and Simpson p. 11 fig. 7
1928Deltatheroides cretacicus Simpson p. 2
1979Deltatheroides cretacicus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 183
2004Deltatheroides cretacicus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 411, 446

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
orderDeltatheroidaKielan-Jaworowska 1982
genusDeltatheroides
speciescretacicus

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.

†Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory and Simpson 1926
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Diagnosis
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