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Kaupitherium gruelli

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Kaupitherium gruelli was named by Voss and Hampe (2017). Its type specimen is BSPG 1956 I 540, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Eckelsheim, which is in a Rupelian marine sandstone in the Alzey Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Kaupitherium.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Kaupitherium gruelli Voss and Hampe p. 341

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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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
genusKaupitherium
speciesgruelli

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.

†Kaupitherium gruelli Voss and Hampe 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available