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Sallacyon hoffstetteri

Mammalia - Sparassodonta

Taxonomy
Sallacyon hoffstetteri was named by Villarroel and Marshall (1982). Its type specimen is GEOBOL SAL (Salla) 539, a mandible (Fragment of a right mandibular ramus with posterior root of M1, M2 missing tip of protoconid, and M3 missing tips of protoconid and paraconid), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Salla, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial horizon in the Salla Formation of Bolivia. It is the type species of Sallacyon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Sallacyon hoffstetteri Villarroel and Marshall p. 205 fig. 4

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
orderSparassodonta()
subfamilyHathlyacininae()
genusSallacyon
specieshoffstetteri

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.

†Sallacyon hoffstetteri Villarroel and Marshall 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available