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Amblotherium nanum

Mammalia - Dryolestidae

Taxonomy
Achyrodon nanus was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BMNH 47745, a mandible (right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Amblotherium nanum by Owen (1871), Simpson (1928), Simpson (1929), Kraus (1979) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Amblotherium nanum Owen
1871Achyrodon nanus Owen p. 37 figs. pl. 2, figs5-7
1928Amblotherium nanum Simpson p. 135 figs. pl. 10, figs 1-6; text-figs 43-44
1929Amblotherium nanum Simpson p. 66
1979Amblotherium nanum Kraus p. 164
2004Amblotherium nanum Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 382-383

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
superorderDryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
familyDryolestidaeMarsh 1879
genusAmblotherium
speciesnanum()

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.

†Amblotherium nanum Owen 1871
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available