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Protomoropus

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Taxonomy

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Protomoropus Hooker and Dashzeveg pp. 1364-1371 figs. 1-4
2018Protomoropus Bai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ancylopoda()
genusProtomoropus

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. †Protomoropus Hooker and Dashzeveg 2004
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Protomoropus gabuniai Hooker and Dashzeveg 2004
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. J. Hooker and D. Dashzeveg 2004Small ancylopod, upper and lower first molar length about 8mm (see Table 1 for other measurements). Molars with relatively short upper trigon and lower talonid basins. Marked wear gradient from M1 to M3. Upper molars with essentially vertically implanted paracone and metacone, with only slightly buccally flexed centrocrista, well-developed protoloph and metaloph with weak paraconule and variably developed metaconule, parastyle not distally recurved, no mesostyle, and strong lingual cingulum around protocone. M3 ectoloph elongate compared to M1–2 and with prominent metastyle. Lower molars
with straight cristid obliqua (metalophid) whose mesial end is low, joining the back of the trigonid approximately at the midpoint between protoconid and metaconid, ectocingulid strong round hypoconid, metaconid buttress present, paracristid making angle of c. 40 degrees to tooth long axis, and twinned metaconid cusps close together. M1–2 with prominent median cuspate hypoconulid and faint remnant of entoconulid developed close to entoconid. M3 bearing well-developed hypoconulid lobe with sloping distal wall and main hypoconulid cusp buccally and subterminally situated. DP4 with large mesially protruding parastyle.