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Megalocninae
Taxonomy
Megalocninae is a subfamily.
It was assigned to Megalonychidae by White and MacPhee (2001), MacPhee et al. (2003), Varela et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Megalonychidae by White and MacPhee (2001), MacPhee et al. (2003), Varela et al. (2019).
Subtaxa
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2005-03-13; modified by M. Uhen on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2001 | Megalocninae White and MacPhee |
| 2003 | Megalocninae MacPhee et al. p. 19 |
| 2019 | Megalocninae Varela et al. |
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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.
Subfm. †Megalocninae
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G. †Imagocnus MacPhee and Iturralde-Vinent 1994
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†Imagocnus zazae MacPhee and Iturralde-Vincent 1994
G. †Megalocnus Leidy 1868
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†Megalocnus rodens Matthew and Paula Couto 1959
†Megalocnus zile MacPhee et al. 2000
Invalid names: Megalocnini Kraglievich 1923 [empty], Mesocnini Varona 1974 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 23.04000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Cuba (Sancti Spiritus) | Imagocnus zazae (31183) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Dominican Republic | Megalocninae indet. (226046 226047) | |
| Pleistocene | Cuba | Mesocnus browni (37703) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Cuba (Matanzas) | Megalocnus rodens, Parocnus browni (152870) | |
| Quaternary | Dominican Republic (Guerra) | Parocnus sp. (198638) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Cuba (Pinar del Río) | Megalocnus sp. (78640) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Dominican Republic (La Altagracia) | Parocnus sp. (232040) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Cuba (Artemisa) | Mesocnus browni, Megalocnus rodens (195083) |