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Palaeopeltidae
Taxonomy
Palaeopeltidae was named by Ameghino (1894). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Glyptodontia by Ameghino (1894); to Glyptodontia by Ameghino (1897); to Dasypodoidea by Carroll (1988); and to Glyptodontoidea by Castellanos (1959), McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Glyptodontia by Ameghino (1894); to Glyptodontia by Ameghino (1897); to Dasypodoidea by Carroll (1988); and to Glyptodontoidea by Castellanos (1959), McKenna and Bell (1997).
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Kouvari on 2019-11-26
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Palaeopeltidae Ameghino |
| 1897 | Palaeopeltidae Ameghino p. 506 |
| 1959 | Palaeopeltidae Castellanos |
| 1988 | Palaeopeltidae Carroll |
| 1997 | Palaeopeltidae McKenna and Bell p. 87 |
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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.
Fm. †Palaeopeltidae Ameghino 1894
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G. †Palaeopeltis Ameghino 1895
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†Palaeopeltis inornatus Ameghino 1894
†Palaeopeltis tesseratus Ameghino 1902
Invalid names: Pseudorophodon Hoffestter 1954 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Mustersan to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 48.00000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Mustersan | Argentina (Chubut) | Palaeopeltis tesseratus (176286) | |
| Deseadan | Argentina (Río Negro) | Palaeopeltis inornatus (176646) | |
| Deseadan | Argentina (Chubut) | Palaeopeltis inornatus (14211) | |
| Deseadan | Uruguay (Soriano) | Palaeopeltis inornatus (176486) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Argentina (Mendoza) | Palaeopeltis inornatus (220946) |