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Medistylus dorsatus

Mammalia - Notoungulata

Taxonomy
Phanophilus dorsatus was named by Ameghino (1904). It is the type species of Medistylus.

It was recombined as Medistylus dorsatus by Stirton (1952) and Reguero et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Phanophilus dorsatus Ameghino p. 12
1952Medistylus dorsatus Stirton
2007Medistylus dorsatus Reguero 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
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
—PaenungulataSimpson 1945
—Sudamericungulata
orderNotoungulata
suborderTypotheriaZittel 1892
—Hegetotheriidae(Ameghino 1894)
—Pachyrukhinae(Kraglievich 1934)
genusMedistylusStirton 1952
speciesdorsatus()

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.

†Medistylus dorsatus Ameghino 1904
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available