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Tapirus sinensis

Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Tapirus sinensis was named by Owen (1870). It is not a trace fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tapirus indicus by Hooijer (1947) and Colbert and Hooijer (1953).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. balkanikus, T. olivaresi, T. peii, T. telleri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Tapirus sinensis Owen
2002Tapirus sinensis Tong et al. p. 590

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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
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusTapirus
speciessinensisOwen 1870

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.

†Tapirus sinensis Owen 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available