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Stylocynus

Mammalia - Sparassodonta

Taxonomy
Stylocynus was named by Mercerat (1917). It is not extant. Its type is Stylocynus paranensis.

It was assigned to Proborhyaeninae by Marshall (1979); to Borhyaenidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Sparassodonta by Forasiepi (2009); and to Sparassodonta by Goin et al. (2013).

Species
S. paranensis (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Stylocynus Mercerat
1979Stylocynus Marshall
1997Stylocynus McKenna and Bell
2009Stylocynus Forasiepi pp. 105-106
2013Stylocynus Goin 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
RankNameAuthor
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
orderSparassodonta()
genusStylocynusMercerat 1917

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. †Stylocynus Mercerat 1917
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†Stylocynus paranensis Mercerat 1917
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available