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Docodon victor

Docodonta - Docodontidae

Taxonomy
Diplocynodon victor was named by Marsh (1880). Its type specimen is YPM 11826, a mandible (right mandible with C, P1-4, and M1-6), 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 is the type species of Dicrocynodon, Diplocynodon.

It was recombined as Dicrocynodon victor by Hay (1902), Simpson (1927), Simpson (1927) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Docodon victor by Simpson (1929), Kron (1979), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004) and Foster et al. (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Diplocynodon victor Marsh p. 235
1897Diplocynodon victor Marsh p. 508
1902Dicrocynodon victor Hay p. 568
1927Dicrocynodon victor Simpson p. 415
1929Docodon victor Simpson pp. 86, 90-92
1930Dicrocynodon victor Hay p. 374
1979Docodon victor Kron p. 91
2004Docodon victor Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 196-197
2006Docodon victor Foster et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
orderDocodontaKretzoi 1946
familyDocodontidae
genusDocodon
speciesvictor()

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.

Docodon victor Marsh 1880
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Diagnosis
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