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Molassitherium albigense

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Acerotherium albigense was named by Roman (1912). Its type specimen is Museum Toulouse-Lautrec Albi specimen, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Sauzière Saint-Jean, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in France.

It was recombined as Protaceratherium albigense by von Breuning (1924) and Antoine et al. (2010); it was recombined as Molassitherium albigense by Becker et al. (2013).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Acerotherium albigense Roman
1924Protaceratherium albigense von Breuning
1969Diceratherium kuntneri Spillmann
2010Protaceratherium albigense Antoine et al.
2013Molassitherium albigense Becker 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
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
subfamilyRhinocerotinae
genusMolassitherium
speciesalbigense(Roman 1912)

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.

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Invalid names: Diceratherium kuntneri Spillmann 1969 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available