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Libycosaurus
Taxonomy
Libycosaurus was named by Bonnarelli (1947). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Merycopotamus by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Ruminantiamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); to Bothriodontinae by Boisserie et al. (2005) and Boisserie et al. (2010); to Anthracotheriidae by Vignaud et al. (2002), Boisserie et al. (2005) and Holroyd et al. (2010); and to Hippopotamoidea by Orliac et al. (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Merycopotamus by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Ruminantiamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); to Bothriodontinae by Boisserie et al. (2005) and Boisserie et al. (2010); to Anthracotheriidae by Vignaud et al. (2002), Boisserie et al. (2005) and Holroyd et al. (2010); and to Hippopotamoidea by Orliac et al. (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Libycosaurus Bonnarelli |
| 2002 | Libycosaurus Vignaud et al. p. 154 |
| 2005 | Libycosaurus Boisserie et al. |
| 2009 | Libycosaurus Spaulding et al. |
| 2010 | Libycosaurus Boisserie et al. p. 329 |
| 2010 | Libycosaurus Holroyd et al. p. 855 |
| 2010 | Libycosaurus Orliac et al. p. 11872 figs. Fig. 2 |
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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.
G. †Libycosaurus Bonnarelli 1947
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†Libycosaurus algeriensis Ducrocq et al. 2001
†Libycosaurus anisae Black 1972
†Libycosaurus bahri Lihoreau et al. 2014
†Libycosaurus petrocchii Bonnarelli 1947
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Kron and Manning 1998 | |||||
Age range: Messinian or 7.24600 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Chad | L. bahri (230315) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Uganda | L. anisae (22359 22360 22447) | |
| Messinian | Chad | L. petrocchii (59839) |