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Merycopotamidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Merycopotamidae was named by Cope (1887).
It was assigned to Artiodactyla by Cope (1889); and to Suina by Flower and Lydekker (1891).
It was assigned to Artiodactyla by Cope (1889); and to Suina by Flower and Lydekker (1891).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1887 | Merycopotamidae Cope p. 877 |
| 1889 | Merycopotamidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Merycopotamidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90 |
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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. †Merycopotamidae Cope 1887
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Collections
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