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Andrewsarchidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Andrewsarchinae was named by Szalay and Gould (1966).
It was reranked as the family Andrewsarchidae by Gingerich (1998) and Thewissen et al. (2001).
It was assigned to Mesonychidae by Szalay and Gould (1966) and Zhou et al. (1995); to Mesonychia by Gingerich (1998); and to Mesonychia by Thewissen et al. (2001).
It was reranked as the family Andrewsarchidae by Gingerich (1998) and Thewissen et al. (2001).
It was assigned to Mesonychidae by Szalay and Gould (1966) and Zhou et al. (1995); to Mesonychia by Gingerich (1998); and to Mesonychia by Thewissen et al. (2001).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Andrewsarchinae Szalay and Gould p. 154 |
| 1995 | Andrewsarchinae Zhou et al. p. 387 |
| 1998 | Andrewsarchidae Gingerich p. 427 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2001 | Andrewsarchidae Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
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Fm. †Andrewsarchidae Szalay and Gould 1966
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Tabuce et al. 2011 | |||||
Collections
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