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Colodon orientalis

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Colodon orientalis was named by Borissyak (1918). Its type specimen is PIN 1442-49, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lake Chelkar-Teniz, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in Kazakhstan.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Colodon orientalis Borissyak

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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
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusColodon
speciesorientalisBorissyak 1918

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.

Colodon orientalis Borissyak 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-22 20:13:37
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 33.90000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene37.2 - 28.4Kazakhstan Colodon orientalis (180520)
Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene33.9 - 15.97Kazakhstan Colodon orientalis (180519)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Kazakhstan (Aktyubinskaya) Colodon orientalis (type locality: 73994)