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Herpetotherium
Taxonomy
Herpetotherium was named by Cope (1873).
It was synonymized subjectively with Didelphys by Cope (1879); it was synonymized subjectively with Peratherium by Cope (1884), Simpson (1928), Scott (1941), Galbreath (1953), Gazin (1976), Green and Martin (1976), Russell (1984) and Ostrander (1987); it was synonymized subjectively with Didelphis by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Didelphini by Krishtalka and Stucky (1983) and Krishtalka and Stucky (1983); to Herpetotheriinae by Korth (1994) and Johanson (1996); to Herpetotheriidae by Williamson et al. (2012); to Australidelphia by Engelman and Croft (2014); to Marsupialia by Wilson et al. (2016); to Herpetotheriinae by Dawson and Constenius (2018); to Didelphidae by Cope (1873), Troxell (1923), Hough (1961), Crochet (1977), Crochet (1980), Fox (1983), Korth (1992), Eberle and Storer (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Lofgren et al. (2020); and to Herpetotheriidae by Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Rose et al. (2012), Carneiro and Oliveira (2017) and Korth et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Didelphys by Cope (1879); it was synonymized subjectively with Peratherium by Cope (1884), Simpson (1928), Scott (1941), Galbreath (1953), Gazin (1976), Green and Martin (1976), Russell (1984) and Ostrander (1987); it was synonymized subjectively with Didelphis by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Didelphini by Krishtalka and Stucky (1983) and Krishtalka and Stucky (1983); to Herpetotheriinae by Korth (1994) and Johanson (1996); to Herpetotheriidae by Williamson et al. (2012); to Australidelphia by Engelman and Croft (2014); to Marsupialia by Wilson et al. (2016); to Herpetotheriinae by Dawson and Constenius (2018); to Didelphidae by Cope (1873), Troxell (1923), Hough (1961), Crochet (1977), Crochet (1980), Fox (1983), Korth (1992), Eberle and Storer (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Lofgren et al. (2020); and to Herpetotheriidae by Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Rose et al. (2012), Carneiro and Oliveira (2017) and Korth et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1873 | Herpetotherium Cope |
| 1923 | Herpetotherium Troxell |
| 1961 | Herpetotherium Hough |
| 1977 | Herpetotherium Crochet |
| 1980 | Herpetotherium Crochet |
| 1983 | Herpetotherium Fox |
| 1983 | Herpetotherium Krishtalka and Stucky p. 207 |
| 1992 | Herpetotherium Korth |
| 1994 | Herpetotherium Korth p. 378 |
| 1995 | Herpetotherium Eberle and Storer |
| 1996 | Herpetotherium Johanson p. 1023 |
| 1997 | Herpetotherium McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Herpetotherium Sánchez-Villagra et al. p. 318 |
| 2012 | Herpetotherium Rose et al. p. 18 |
| 2012 | Herpetotherium Williamson et al. |
| 2014 | Herpetotherium Engelman and Croft |
| 2016 | Herpetotherium Wilson et al. |
| 2017 | Herpetotherium Carneiro and Oliveira |
| 2018 | Herpetotherium Dawson and Constenius p. 36 |
| 2020 | Herpetotherium Lofgren et al. |
| 2022 | Herpetotherium Korth et al. |
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G. †Herpetotherium Cope 1873
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†Herpetotherium fugax Cope 1873
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Invalid names: Didelphys pygmaea Scott 1894 [synonym], Herpetotherium scalare Cope 1873 [synonym], Herpetotherium tricuspis Cope 1873 [synonym]
†Herpetotherium innominatum Simpson 1928
†Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
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Invalid names: Centracodon delicatus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Entomacodon minutus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Peratherium morrisi Gazin 1962 [synonym]
†Herpetotherium marsupium Troxell 1923
†Herpetotherium merriami Stock and Furlong 1922
†Herpetotherium youngi McGrew 1937
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Invalid names: Peratherium spindleri Macdonald 1963 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available