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Oxyaena woutersi

Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

Taxonomy
Arfia woutersi was named by Lange-Badré and Godinot (1982). Its type specimen is IRSNB M1319, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dormaal, which is in a Ypresian fluvial sandstone in the Tienen Formation of Belgium.

It was recombined as Oxyaena woutersi by Smith and Smith (2001) and Solé et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Arfia woutersi Lange-Badré and Godinot
2001Oxyaena woutersi Smith and Smith
2011Oxyaena woutersi Solé et al.

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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
—Ferae()
orderCreodonta()
—OxyaenodontaVan Valen 1971
familyOxyaenidae
subfamilyOxyaeninaeTrouessart 1885
genusOxyaenaCope 1874
specieswoutersi(Lange-Badré and Godinot 1982)

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.

†Oxyaena woutersi Lange-Badré and Godinot 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available