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Merychippus calamarius stylodontus
Taxonomy
Merychippus calamarius stylodontus was named by Merriam (1919). Its type specimen is UCMP 21410, a set of teeth (upper right M1 - M2), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Stylonus stylodontus by Kelly and Lander (1988) and Kelly (1992); it was recombined as Pliohippus stylodontus by Evander (1997); it was recombined as Acritohippus stylodontus by Kelly (1998); it was recombined as Merychippus stylodontus by Lewis (1968), Kelly (1995) and MacFadden (1998).
It was recombined as Stylonus stylodontus by Kelly and Lander (1988) and Kelly (1992); it was recombined as Pliohippus stylodontus by Evander (1997); it was recombined as Acritohippus stylodontus by Kelly (1998); it was recombined as Merychippus stylodontus by Lewis (1968), Kelly (1995) and MacFadden (1998).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1919 | Merychippus calamarius stylodontus Merriam p. 505 figs. figs. 43-46 |
| 1968 | Merychippus stylodontus Lewis p. C79 |
| 1988 | Stylonus stylodontus Kelly and Lander |
| 1992 | Stylonus stylodontus Kelly |
| 1995 | Merychippus stylodontus Kelly p. 16 |
| 1997 | Pliohippus stylodontus Evander p. 67 fig. 4 |
| 1998 | Acritohippus stylodontus Kelly |
| 1998 | Merychippus stylodontus MacFadden p. 547 |
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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.
†Merychippus calamarius stylodontus Merriam 1919
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Diagnosis
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| Source: subf = subfamily, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: MacFadden 1998, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
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