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Masritherium
Taxonomy
Masritherium was named by Fourtau (1918). Its type is Masritherium depereti.
It was assigned to Anthracotheriidae by Carroll (1988), Anyonge (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Anthracotheriidae by Carroll (1988), Anyonge (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
M. aequatorialis, M. depereti (type species)
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Uhen on 2013-10-27
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Masritherium Fourtau p. 63 figs. 44-57 |
| 1988 | Masritherium Carroll |
| 1991 | Masritherium Anyonge p. 379 |
| 1997 | Masritherium McKenna and Bell p. 406 |
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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. †Masritherium Fourtau 1918
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†Masritherium aequatorialis MacInnes 1951
†Masritherium depereti Fourtau 1918
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Kron and Manning 1998 | |||||
Age range: MN 4 or 16.90000 to 15.98000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Uganda | Brachyodus aequatorialis (28292 28293) | |
| Burdigalian | Uganda | Brachyodus aequatorialis (192070) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | M. aequatoralis (83629) M. aequitorialis (38060) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | M. depereti (53970) |