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Taxonomy
Teratodontidae was named by Savage (1965).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hyaenodontinae by Van Valen (1967); it was reranked as the subfamily Teratodontinae by Solé et al. (2014), Borths et al. (2016) and Borths and Seiffert (2017); it was reranked as the unranked clade Teratodontinae by Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was assigned to Oxyaenoidea by Savage (1965); to Creodonta by Morales et al. (2007) and Morales et al. (2008); to Hyaenodontidae by Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailouroidea by Borths et al. (2016), Borths and Stevens (2017), Borths and Seiffert (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hyaenodontinae by Van Valen (1967); it was reranked as the subfamily Teratodontinae by Solé et al. (2014), Borths et al. (2016) and Borths and Seiffert (2017); it was reranked as the unranked clade Teratodontinae by Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was assigned to Oxyaenoidea by Savage (1965); to Creodonta by Morales et al. (2007) and Morales et al. (2008); to Hyaenodontidae by Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailouroidea by Borths et al. (2016), Borths and Stevens (2017), Borths and Seiffert (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1965 | Teratodontidae Savage p. 246 |
2007 | Teratodontidae Morales et al. p. 74 |
2008 | Teratodontidae Morales et al. |
2014 | Teratodontinae Solé et al. |
2016 | Teratodontinae Borths et al. |
2017 | Teratodontinae Borths and Seiffert |
2017 | Teratodontinae Borths and Stevens |
2019 | Teratodontinae Solé and Mennecart |
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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.
Unr. †Teratodontinae Savage 1965
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G. †Brychotherium Holroyd 1994
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†Brychotherium atrox Holroyd 1994
†Brychotherium ephalmos Holroyd 1994
†Brychotherium ethiopica Andrews 1906
G. †Dissopsalis Pilgrim 1910
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†Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim 1910
†Dissopsalis pyroclasticus Savage 1965
G. †Masrasector Simons and Gingerich 1974
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†Masrasector aegypticum Simons and Gingerich 1974
†Masrasector ligabuei Crochet et al. 1990
†Masrasector nananubis Borths and Seiffert 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available