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Polymastodontidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Polymastodontidae was named by Cope (1884). Its type is Polymastodon.
It was reranked as the subfamily Polymastodontinae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Multituberculata by Cope (1889); to Multituberculata by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Multituberculata by Lydekker (1894); to Plagiaulacidae by Hay (1902); and to Plagiaulacoidae by Hay (1930).
It was reranked as the subfamily Polymastodontinae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Multituberculata by Cope (1889); to Multituberculata by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Multituberculata by Lydekker (1894); to Plagiaulacidae by Hay (1902); and to Plagiaulacoidae by Hay (1930).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1884 | Polymastodontidae Cope |
| 1889 | Polymastodontidae Cope p. 874 |
| 1891 | Polymastodontidae Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
| 1894 | Polymastodontidae Lydekker p. 283 |
| 1902 | Polymastodontinae Hay p. 562 |
| 1930 | Polymastodontidae Hay p. 383 |
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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.
Fm. †Polymastodontidae Cope 1884
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Jenkins and Krause 1983 | |||||
Collections
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