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Tapirus oliverasi (tapir)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

Taxonomy
Tapirus oliverasi was named by Ubilla (1983). Its type specimen is MNA-CPO 183, a mandible (Right mandible fragment with m1-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Arroyo Miguelete, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in the Libertad Formation of Uruguay.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. olivaresi, T. telleri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Tapirus oliverasi Ubilla p. 87 figs. lam 1 A-B
2013Tapirus oliverasi Holanda and Ferrero

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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()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyTapiroideaGill 1872
familyTapiridae()
genusTapirus
speciesoliverasi

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.

†Tapirus oliverasi Ubilla 1983 [tapir]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available