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Notiotitanops mississippiensis

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Taxonomy
Notiotitanops mississippiensis was named by Gazin and Sullivan (1942) [genotype]. Its type specimen is USNM 16646, a partial skull (basal portion of skull with complete dentition, except for three incisors and portions of both rami of the manidble with P/3 to M/3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Covington Farm, which is in a Bartonian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Cook Mountain Formation of Mississippi.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Notiotitanops mississippiensis Gazin and Sullivan
2008Notiotitanops mississippiensis Mihlbachler p. 413

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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
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
familyBrontotheriidae()
subfamilyBrontotheriinaeMarsh 1873
tribeBrontotheriiniMarsh 1873
subtribeBrontotheriinaMarsh 1873
—BrontotheriitaMarsh 1873
genusNotiotitanops
speciesmississippiensis

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.

†Notiotitanops mississippiensis Gazin and Sullivan 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 14:53:16
Modified: 2005-08-31 16:53:16
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Mader 1998, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Late/Upper Uintan or 41.30000 to 39.70000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Uintan46.2 - 39.7USA (Texas) Brontotheriidae indet. (16542)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Mississippi) Notiotitanops mississippiensis (type locality: 80887)