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Pinnarctidion

Mammalia - Carnivora

Taxonomy
Pinnarctidion was named by Barnes (1979) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. Its type is Pinnarctidion bishopi.

It was assigned to Enaliarctidae by Carroll (1988); to Desmatophocini by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocoidea by Berta (1994) and Rice (1998); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Enaliarctinae by Barnes (1979), Barnes (1989) and Barnes (2008); and to Pinnipedimorpha by Deméré et al. (2003) and Berta (2017).

Species
P. bishopi (type species), P. iverseni, P. rayi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Pinnarctidion Barnes p. 16 figs. Figures 6-15, 17a, 19a, 21a
1988Pinnarctidion Carroll
1989Pinnarctidion Barnes p. 23
1994Pinnarctidion Berta p. 405 figs. Fig. 6
1997Pinnarctidion McKenna and Bell p. 255
1998Pinnarctidion Rice
2002Pinnarctidion Sepkoski
2003Pinnarctidion Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2008Pinnarctidion Barnes p. 527
2017Pinnarctidion Berta p. 155

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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
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
genusPinnarctidion

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.

G. †Pinnarctidion Barnes 1979
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Pinnarctidion bishopi Barnes 1979
Pinnarctidion iverseni Everett et al. 2023
Pinnarctidion rayi Berta 1994
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available