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Protypotheriidae

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Protypotheriidae

Taxonomy
Protypotheriidae is a family.

It was corrected as Protypotheridae by Ameghino (1894) and Ameghino (1897).

It was assigned to Tipotheria by Ameghino (1897); to Typotheria by Ameghino (1894) and Gadow (1898); and to Toxodontia by Gregory (1910).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Protypotheridae Ameghino p. 13
1897Protypotheridae Ameghino
1898Protypotheriidae Gadow p. 42
1910Protypotheriidae Gregory p. 466

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
—PaenungulataSimpson 1945
—Sudamericungulata
orderNotoungulata
suborderTypotheriaZittel 1892
familyProtypotheriidae
familyProtypotheriidae

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.

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G. †Archaeophylus Ameghino 1897
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†Archaeophylus patrius Ameghino 1897
†Archaeophylus yunnanensis Luo et al. 1982
G. †Caenophilus Ameghino 1904
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†Caenophilus tripartitus Ameghino 1904
G. †Phanophilus Ameghino 1904
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available