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Gomphotherium gratum

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Taxonomy
Gomphotherium gratum was named by Hay (1916) ["property of Dr. Mark Francis, College Station" and from "Pittbridge, Burleson county, Texas, on the Brazos river. Pleistocene"]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pitts Bridge, which is in a Pleistocene fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. subtapiroideum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Gomphotherium gratum Hay p. 18

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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()
familyGomphotheriidaeHay 1922
genusGomphotheriumBurmeister 1837
speciesgratum

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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Diagnosis
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