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Diceratherium niobrarensis
Taxonomy
Diceratherium niobrarensis was named by Peterson (1906). Its type specimen is CMNH 1271, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peterson's Quarry A, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Harrison Formation of Nebraska.
It was recombined as Metacaenopus niobrarensis by Troxell (1921); it was synonymized subjectively with Menoceras arikarense by Tanner (1969); it was corrected as Diceratherium niobrarense by Peterson (1907), Prothero et al. (1989) and Prothero (2005).
It was recombined as Metacaenopus niobrarensis by Troxell (1921); it was synonymized subjectively with Menoceras arikarense by Tanner (1969); it was corrected as Diceratherium niobrarense by Peterson (1907), Prothero et al. (1989) and Prothero (2005).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1906 | Diceratherium niobrarensis Peterson p. 281 |
| 1907 | Diceratherium niobrarense Peterson |
| 1908 | Metacaenopus egregius Cook |
| 1908 | Aceratherium egregius Cook p. 544 |
| 1908 | Aceratherium egregius Loomis |
| 1908 | Diceratherium petersoni Loomis |
| 1912 | Epiaphelops virgasectus Cook |
| 1921 | Metacaenopus egregius Troxell |
| 1921 | Metacaenopus niobrarensis Troxell |
| 1921 | Metacaenopus petersoni Troxell |
| 1962 | Diceratherium niobrarensis Stecher et al. figs. Figure 1 |
| 1989 | Diceratherium niobrarense Prothero et al. |
| 2005 | Diceratherium niobrarense Prothero pp. 56-57 |
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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.
†Diceratherium niobrarensis Peterson 1906
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
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