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Pentacosmodon
Taxonomy
Pentacosmodon was named by Jepsen (1940). It is not extant. Its type is Pentacosmodon pronus.
It was assigned to Sloanbaataridae by Jepsen (1940) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Microcosmodontidae by Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001).
It was assigned to Sloanbaataridae by Jepsen (1940) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Microcosmodontidae by Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001).
Species
P. pronus (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Pentacosmodon Jepsen |
| 1997 | Pentacosmodon McKenna and Bell |
| 2001 | Pentacosmodon Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 417 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Jenkins and Krause 1983, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||