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Gobiatheriidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Gobiatheriidae was named by Flerov (1952).
It was reranked as the subfamily Gobiatheriinae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985) and Lucas (2001).
It was assigned to Dinocerata by Carroll (1988); and to Uintatheriidae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985) and Lucas (2001).
It was reranked as the subfamily Gobiatheriinae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985) and Lucas (2001).
It was assigned to Dinocerata by Carroll (1988); and to Uintatheriidae by Wheeler (1961), Schoch and Lucas (1985) and Lucas (2001).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Gobiatheriidae Flerov p. 1032 |
| 1961 | Gobiatheriinae Wheeler pp. 56 - 57 |
| 1985 | Gobiatheriinae Schoch and Lucas p. 42 |
| 1988 | Gobiatheriidae Carroll |
| 2001 | Gobiatheriinae Lucas |
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Fm. †Gobiatheriidae Flerov 1952
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. H. Wheeler 1961 | No upper canines, bowed zygoma, bony septum between anterior ends of nasals and premaxillaries. Skull unusually flat. | |
| R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas 1985 | Uintatheriids without upper canines and with lower canines greatly reduced; P2/ with a prominent cingular cusp on its anterola bial corner; skull Iong, thin and shallow with a flat sagittal region; nasals strongly arehed with a bony septum connecting their anterior ends to the pre maxillae; zygomatic arehes broad and fiare-out in the region of the glenoid fossae; lower jaw Iong and shallow with a tall ascending rarnus and lacking an inframandibular flange; metaearpals relatively sien der and elongate (Node 7). |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Lucas and Schoch 1998 | |||||
Collections
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