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Taxonomy
Potamotherium was named by Geoffroy (1833). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Lutrinae by Hay (1902); to Oligobuninae by Baskin (1998); to Oligobunidae by Wang et al. (2005); to Semantoridae by Sato et al. (2009); to Pinnipedia by Wolson (1993), Morlo (1996) and Rybczynski et al. (2009); to Potamotheriinae by Robles et al. (2010); to Mustelidae by Palmer (1904), Carroll (1988) and Koretsky and Domning (2014); to Pinnipedimorpha by Paterson et al. (2019); and to Panpinnipedia by Everett et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Lutrinae by Hay (1902); to Oligobuninae by Baskin (1998); to Oligobunidae by Wang et al. (2005); to Semantoridae by Sato et al. (2009); to Pinnipedia by Wolson (1993), Morlo (1996) and Rybczynski et al. (2009); to Potamotheriinae by Robles et al. (2010); to Mustelidae by Palmer (1904), Carroll (1988) and Koretsky and Domning (2014); to Pinnipedimorpha by Paterson et al. (2019); and to Panpinnipedia by Everett et al. (2023).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1833 | Potamotherium Geoffroy |
| 1902 | Pomatotherium Hay p. 768 |
| 1904 | Potamotherium Palmer p. 559 |
| 1988 | Potamotherium Carroll |
| 1993 | Potamotherium Wolson p. 370 |
| 1996 | Potamotherium Morlo p. 216 |
| 1998 | Potamotherium Baskin p. 157 |
| 2005 | Potamotherium Wang et al. p. 48 fig. 17 |
| 2009 | Potamotherium Rybczynski et al. p. 1023 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2009 | Potamotherium Sato et al. p. 917 |
| 2010 | Potamotherium Robles et al. p. 558 |
| 2014 | Potamotherium Koretsky and Domning p. 227 |
| 2019 | Potamotherium Paterson et al. |
| 2023 | Potamotherium Everett et al. |
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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.
G. †Potamotherium Geoffroy 1833
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†Potamotherium miocenicum Peters 1868
†Potamotherium vallentoni Geoffroy-Saint-Hillaire 1833
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| MP 28 | Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) | P. vallentoni (71942) | |
| MN 1 | Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) | P. vallentoni (69617) | |
| Aquitanian | Hungary (Esztergom) | P. valletoni (186636) | |
| MN 2 | Germany (R.-P. and Hesse) | P. valletoni (69606) | |
| Burdigalian | France (Loiret) | P. valetoni (181642) | |
| MN 4 | France (Alsac) | P. miocaenicum (69106) | |
| MN 4 | France (Centre) | P. miocenicum (69116) | |
| Langhian | France (Maine-et-Loire) | P. miocenicum (148396) | |
| MN 5 | Germany | P. miocenicum (46955) | |
| MN 6 - MN 7 + 8 | Slovakia | P. miocenicum (69712) |