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Apheliscus
Taxonomy
Apheliscus was named by Cope (1875). It is not extant. Its type is Prototomus insidiosus. It is the type genus of Apheliscidae.
It was assigned to Mioclaenidae by Cope (1875); to Pseudolemuridae by Schlosser (1877); to Limnotheriidae by Hay (1902); to Apheliscinae by Archibald (1998) and Zack et al. (2005); and to Apheliscidae by Hay (1930) and Hooker and Russell (2012).
It was assigned to Mioclaenidae by Cope (1875); to Pseudolemuridae by Schlosser (1877); to Limnotheriidae by Hay (1902); to Apheliscinae by Archibald (1998) and Zack et al. (2005); and to Apheliscidae by Hay (1930) and Hooker and Russell (2012).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1875 | Apheliscus Cope |
| 1877 | Apheliscus Schlosser p. 34 |
| 1902 | Apheliscus Hay p. 792 |
| 1930 | Apheliscus Hay p. 450 |
| 1998 | Apheliscus Archibald |
| 2005 | Apheliscus Zack et al. |
| 2012 | Apheliscus Hooker and Russell |
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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. †Apheliscus Cope 1875
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†Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
†Apheliscus insidiosus Cope 1874
†Apheliscus nitidus Simpson 1937
†Apheliscus wapitiensis Van Valen 1967
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Clarkforkian or 58.70000 to 54.90000 Ma
Collections (149 total)