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Colodon woodi

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Desmatotherium woodi was named by Gazin (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 20200, a partial skull (Right maxilla with P3-I\P (P* incomplete)), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Colodon woodi by Radinsky (1963), Black (1979), Wilson and Schiebout (1984), Schoch (1989) and Colbert and Schoch (1998).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. hodsimai

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Desmatotherium woodi Gazin
1963Colodon woodi Radinsky p. 62
1979Colodon woodi Black
1984Colodon woodi Wilson and Schiebout
1989Colodon woodi Schoch
1998Colodon woodi Colbert and Schoch

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusColodon
specieswoodi()

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.

†Colodon woodi Gazin 1956
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
L. B. Radinsky 1963Size small: mean length M1-3 = 37.6 mm. P with small posterolingual cusp.
See Table 9.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-22 20:13:37
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: base of the Uintan to the top of the Duchesnean or 46.20000 to 37.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Uintan46.2 - 39.7USA (Montana) Colodon woodi (16551)
Uintan46.2 - 39.7USA (Wyoming) Colodon woodi (16513 16514 16517 16518 16642 16643 16645)
Duchesnean39.7 - 37.0USA (Wyoming) Colodon woodi (16853)