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Tapirus sinensis
Taxonomy
Tapirus sinensis was named by Owen (1870). It is not a trace fossil.
It was synonymized subjectively with Tapirus indicus by Hooijer (1947) and Colbert and Hooijer (1953).
It was synonymized subjectively with Tapirus indicus by Hooijer (1947) and Colbert and Hooijer (1953).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1870 | Tapirus sinensis Owen |
| 2002 | Tapirus sinensis Tong et al. p. 590 |
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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.
†Tapirus sinensis Owen 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, MacFadden and Cerling 1996 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 2.58000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Tapirus sinensis (36819) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Tapirus sinensis (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Tapirus sinensis (226365) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Hubei) | Tapirus sinensis (234753) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Tapirus sinensis (235737) |