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Dinotherium pentapotamiae

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae

Taxonomy
Dinotherium pentapotamiae was named by Falconer and Lydekker (1876).

It was recombined as Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae by Shoshani and Tassy (1996) and Huttunen and Göhlich (2002); it was recombined as Deinotherium pentapotamiae by Samiullah et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Dinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker p. 54
1880Dinotherium pentapotamiae Lydekker
1996Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Shoshani and Tassy p. 355 figs. Appendix C.1
2002Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Huttunen and Göhlich p. 491
2020Deinotherium pentapotamiae Samiullah et al.

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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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
familyDeinotheriidaeBonaparte 1845
genusDinotherium(Kaup 1829)
speciespentapotamiaeFalconer and Lydekker 1876

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.

Dinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876
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Diagnosis
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