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Diacodexis metsiacus
Taxonomy
Pantolestes metsiacus was named by Cope (1882).
It was recombined as Trigonolestes metsiacus by Matthew (1899) and Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Diacodexis chacensis by Sinclair (1914); it was recombined as Diacodexis metsiacus by McKenna (1960), Guthrie (1967), Delson (1971), Rose (1982) and Krishtalka and Stucky (1985).
It was recombined as Trigonolestes metsiacus by Matthew (1899) and Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Diacodexis chacensis by Sinclair (1914); it was recombined as Diacodexis metsiacus by McKenna (1960), Guthrie (1967), Delson (1971), Rose (1982) and Krishtalka and Stucky (1985).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Pantolestes metsiacus Cope pp. 149-150 |
| 1899 | Trigonolestes metsiacus Matthew |
| 1902 | Trigonolestes metsiacus Hay p. 649 |
| 1960 | Diacodexis metsiacus McKenna |
| 1967 | Diacodexis metsiacus Guthrie |
| 1971 | Diacodexis metsiacus Delson |
| 1982 | Diacodexis metsiacus Rose p. 621 |
| 1985 | Diacodexis metsiacus Krishtalka and Stucky |
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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.
†Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Stucky 1998, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Graybullian to the top of the Wasatchian or 55.80000 to 50.30000 Ma
Collections (176 total)