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Embolotherium andrewsi

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Taxonomy
Embolotherium andrewsi was named by Osborn (1929). Its type specimen is Amer. Mus. 26001, a partial skull (cranium with maxillary rostrum wanting, dentition damaged), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Urtyn Obo "Middle White" or "Gray" Beds, which is in an Ulangochuian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Ulan Gocho Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Embolotherium andrewsi Osborn p. 13
2008Embolotherium andrewsi 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
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
familyBrontotheriidae()
subfamilyBrontotheriinaeMarsh 1873
—Embolotheriita()
genusEmbolotherium
speciesandrewsi

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.

†Embolotherium andrewsi Osborn 1929
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available