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Antiacodon pygmaeus

Mammalia - Homacodontidae

Taxonomy
Lophiotherium pygmaeum was named by Cope (1872). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cottonwood Creek (Lower Bridger), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Hyopsodus pygmaeus by Cope (1872); it was recombined as Antiacodon pygmaeus by Cope (1873), Gazin (1958), Gazin (1976), West (1984), Walsh (2000) and Theodor et al. (2007); it was recombined as Propalaeotherium pygmaeum by Dépéret (1901); it was recombined as Sarcolemur pygmaeus by Osborn (1902) and Hay (1902).

Subspecies
A. huerfanensis

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Lophiotherium pygmaeum Cope p. 2
1872Hyopsodus pygmaeus Cope p. 461
1873Antiacodon pygmaeus Cope p. 1
1894Nanomeryx caudatus Marsh p. 263
1901Propalaeotherium pygmaeum Dépéret p. 212
1902Homacodon caudatus Hay p. 650
1902Sarcolemur pygmaeus Hay p. 793
1902Sarcolemur pygmaeus Osborn p. 189 figs. Figure 17
1958Antiacodon pygmaeus Gazin
1976Antiacodon pygmaeus Gazin
1983Homacodon caudatus Lucas
1984Antiacodon pygmaeus West
2000Antiacodon pygmaeus Walsh
2007Antiacodon pygmaeus Theodor et al. p. 52
2017Lophiotherium pygmaeum Remy pp. 10, 13, 14, 18

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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
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
superfamilyDichobunoideaGill 1872
familyHomacodontidaeMarsh 1849
genusAntiacodon
speciespygmaeus()

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.

†Antiacodon pygmaeus Cope 1872
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Invalid names: Nanomeryx caudatus Marsh 1894 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available