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Colpodon
Taxonomy
Colpodon was named by Burmeister (1885). Its type is Colpodon propinquus.
It was assigned to Nesodontidae by Ameghino (1887); to Homalodontotheridae by Ameghino (1894); to Astrapotheroidea by Lydekker (1894); to Notohippidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Leontiniidae by Carroll (1988), Ribeiro et al. (2010), Shockey et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Nesodontidae by Ameghino (1887); to Homalodontotheridae by Ameghino (1894); to Astrapotheroidea by Lydekker (1894); to Notohippidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Leontiniidae by Carroll (1988), Ribeiro et al. (2010), Shockey et al. (2012).
Species
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by J. Zijlstra on 2016-02-03
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1885 | Colpodon Burmeister p. 161 |
| 1887 | Colpodon Ameghino p. 61 |
| 1894 | Colpodon Ameghino p. 67 |
| 1894 | Colpodon Lydekker p. 2 |
| 1988 | Colpodon Carroll |
| 1997 | Colpodon McKenna and Bell |
| 2010 | Colpodon Ribeiro et al. |
| 2012 | Colpodon Shockey 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. †Colpodon Burmeister 1885
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†Colpodon antucoensis Shockey et al. 2012
†Colpodon distinctus Ameghino 1902
†Colpodon plicatus Ameghino 1904
†Colpodon propinquus Burmeister 1885
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Colhuehuapian or 20.45000 to 17.50000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Colhuehuapian | Argentina (Chubut) | C. distinctus (176236 176237 176238 176239 176240) C. sp., C. distinctus (141368) | |
| Colhuehuapian | Argentina (Río Negro) | C. sp. (89093) | |
| Burdigalian | Chile (Bío Bío) | Leontiniidae indet. (140103) |