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Priacodon robustus

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Taxonomy
Tinodon robustus was named by Marsh (1879). Its type specimen is YPM 11846, a mandible (left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Priacodon robustus by Simpson (1925), Simpson (1929), Hay (1930), Jenkins and Crompton (1979) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Tinodon robustus Marsh p. 397
1887Tinodon robustus Marsh p. 343
1902Tinodon robustus Hay p. 567
1925Priacodon robustus Simpson p. 162 figs. 6-7
1929Priacodon robustus Simpson p. 36
1930Priacodon robustus Hay p. 370
1979Priacodon robustus Jenkins and Crompton p. 75
2004Priacodon robustus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 219, 245-246

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
orderEutriconodontaKermack et al. 1973
familyTriconodontidaeMarsh 1887
genusPriacodon
speciesrobustus()

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.

†Priacodon robustus Marsh 1879
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available