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Eotheroides sandersi

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Eotheroides sandersi was named by Zalmout and Gingerich (2012). Its type specimen is CGM 42181, a partial skeleton (skull and partial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is WH-230, which is in a Priabonian marine shale in the Birket Qarun Formation of Egypt.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Eotheroides sandersi Zalmout and Gingerich p. 61 figs. Figures 40-64

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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
—Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
genusEotheroides
speciessandersi

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.

†Eotheroides sandersi Zalmout and Gingerich 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available