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Lambdotheriidae (disused)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Lambdotheriidae

Taxonomy
Lambdotheriidae was named by Cope (1889). Its type is Lambdotherium.

It was reranked as the subfamily Lambdotheriinae by Hay (1902).

It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Cope (1889); to Perissodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Brontotheriidae by Hay (1902); and to Brontotherioidea by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Lambdotheriidae Cope p. 876
1891Lambdotheriidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90
1902Lambdotheriinae Hay p. 629
1989Lambdotheriidae Prothero and Schoch p. 536

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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()
suborderTitanotheriomorpha
superfamilyBrontotherioideaMarsh 1873
familyLambdotheriidae
familyLambdotheriidae

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.

Fm. †Lambdotheriidae Cope 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available