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Hypsimylus
Taxonomy
Hypsimylus was named by Zhai (1977). Its type is Hypsimylus beijingensis.
It was assigned to Eurymyloidea by Zhai (1977); to Hypsimylinae by Dashzeveg and Russell (1988); to Mimotonidae by Carroll (1988); to Lagomorpha by Meng and Hu (2004); to Palaeolaginae by Meng et al. (2005); and to Leporidae by Meng et al. (2005).
It was assigned to Eurymyloidea by Zhai (1977); to Hypsimylinae by Dashzeveg and Russell (1988); to Mimotonidae by Carroll (1988); to Lagomorpha by Meng and Hu (2004); to Palaeolaginae by Meng et al. (2005); and to Leporidae by Meng et al. (2005).
Species
H. beijingensis (type species), H. yihesubuensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Hypsimylus Zhai |
| 1988 | Hypsimylus Carroll |
| 1988 | Hypsimylus Dashzeveg and Russell |
| 2004 | Hypsimylus Meng and Hu p. 264 |
| 2005 | Hypsimylus Meng et al. |
| 2005 | Hypsimylus Meng et al. |
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G. †Hypsimylus Zhai 1977
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†Hypsimylus beijingensis Zhai 1977
†Hypsimylus yihesubuensis Meng and Hu 2004
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 48.07000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | China (Beijing) | H. beijingensis (174745) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | H. yihesubuensis (77908) |