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Homunculidae
Taxonomy
Homunculidae was named by Ameghino (1901).
It was reranked as the tribe Homunculini by Tejedor and Rosenberger (2008).
It was assigned to Simioidea by Ameghino (1902); to Pitheciinae by Tejedor and Rosenberger (2008); and to Platyrrhini by Hershkovitz (1974), Kay (2010).
It was reranked as the tribe Homunculini by Tejedor and Rosenberger (2008).
It was assigned to Simioidea by Ameghino (1902); to Pitheciinae by Tejedor and Rosenberger (2008); and to Platyrrhini by Hershkovitz (1974), Kay (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Homunculidae Ameghino p. 76 |
| 1902 | Homunculidae Ameghino p. 75 |
| 1974 | Homunculidae Hershkovitz |
| 2008 | Homunculini Tejedor and Rosenberger |
| 2010 | Homunculidae Kay |
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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.
Fm. †Homunculidae Ameghino 1901
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G. †Homunculus Ameghino 1891
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†Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino 1891
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Invalid names: Anthropops perfectus Ameghino 1891 [synonym], Ecphantodon ceboides Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Homunculus ameghinoi Bluntschli 1931 [synonym], Killikaike blakei Tejedor et al. 2006 [synonym], Pitheculus australis Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Stilotherium grande Ameghino 1894 [synonym]
†Homunculus vizcainoi Kay and Perry 2019
Invalid names: Anthropops Ameghino 1891 [synonym], Ecphantodon Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Killikaike Tejedor et al. 2006 [synonym], Pitheculus Ameghino 1894 [synonym]
Subfm. †Soriacebinae Kay 2010
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G. †Soriacebus Fleagle et al. 1987
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†Soriacebus adrianae Fleagle 1990
†Soriacebus ameghinorum Fleagle et al. 1987
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available