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Hexaprotodon coryndoni

Osteichthyes - Hippopotamidae

Taxonomy
Hexaprotodon coryndoni was named by Geze (1985). Its type specimen is AL 170-1A & AL 170-1B, a partial skull (mandible and cranial fragments), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hadar - DD General, which is in a Piacenzian wet floodplain horizon in the Hadar Formation of Ethiopia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. iravaticus, H. simplex, H. sinhaleyus, H. protoamphibius

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Hexaprotodon coryndoni Geze
1985Hexaprotodon coryndoni Geze p. 89 figs. Fig. 5a

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
superfamilyHippopotamoideaGray 1821
familyHippopotamidae
subfamilyHippopotaminaeGray 1821
genusHexaprotodon
speciescoryndoni

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