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Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Tapirus veroensis was named by Sellards (1918). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vero, which is in a Pleistocene channel sandstone/sandstone in Florida.

It was recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis by Hulbert (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Tapirus veroensis Sellards
1920Tapirus tennesseae Hay p. 88 figs. Plate 3, figs. 4-11
1929Tapirus veroensis sellardsi Simpson
1940Tapirus tennesseae Olson p. 53
1940Tapirus veroensis Olson p. 53
1940Tapirus veroensis sellardsi Olson p. 53
1945Tapirus excelsus Simpson
1966Tapirus veroensis Slaughter p. 88
1980Tapirus veroensis Kurten and Anderson p. 293
2002Tapirus veroensis Czaplewski et al. p. 103
2007Tapirus veroensis Ferrero and Noriega p. 508
2010Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Hulbert p. 78
2018Tapirus veroensis Eshelman et al. p. 9

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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
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusTapirus
subgenusHelicotapirus
speciesveroensis(Sellards 1918)

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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Invalid names: Tapirus excelsus Simpson 1945 [synonym], Tapirus tennesseae Hay 1920 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
O. P. Hay 1920 (Tapirus tennesseae)Size probably smaller than in T. terrestris. Parastyle feeble, no tubercles at ends of valleys of lower teeth