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Lutra licenti

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Lutra licenti was named by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Nihowan, N of Sanggan River, which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene fluvial-lacustrine horizon in China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Lutra licenti Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau
1992Lutra licenti Willemsen p. 114

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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()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyMustelidaeFischer 1817
subfamilyLutrinaeBaird 1857
genusLutra
specieslicenti

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.

†Lutra licenti Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: amphibiousg
Diet: carnivoref
Diet 2: omnivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2012-04-17 11:13:59
Modified: 2012-04-16 20:13:59
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Gingerich 2003, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.78100 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781China (Hebei) Lutra licenti (type locality: 231023)