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Plesiosorex

Mammalia - Plesiosoricidae

Taxonomy
Plesiosorex was named by Pomel (1848) [also said to be 1854]. It is not extant. Its type is Erinaceus soricinoides.

It was assigned to Metacodontidae by Butler (1948) and Rzebik-Kowalska (1993); and to Plesiosoricidae by Pomel (1848), Van Valen (1967), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Gunnell et al. (2008), Ziegler (2009) and Korth and Evander (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Plesiosorex Pomel
1929Meterix Hall
1948Plesiosorex Butler
1967Meterix Van Valen
1967Plesiosorex Van Valen
1988Plesiosorex Carroll
1993Plesiosorex Rzebik-Kowalska
1997Plesiosorex McKenna and Bell
2008Plesiosorex Gunnell et al.
2009Plesiosorex Ziegler p. 365
2016Plesiosorex Korth and Evander

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Eulipotyphla
suborderSoricomorphaGregory 1910
familyPlesiosoricidaeWinge 1917
genusPlesiosorexPomel 1848

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. †Plesiosorex Pomel 1848
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Plesiosorex aydarlensis Kordikova 2000
Plesiosorex coloradensis Wilson 1960
Plesiosorex donroosai Green 1977
Plesiosorex evolutus Ziegler 2006
Plesiosorex germanicus Seemann 1938
Plesiosorex greeni Martin and Lim 2004
Plesiosorex latidens Hall 1929
Plesiosorex schaffneri Engesser 1972
Plesiosorex soricinoides Blainville 1838
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Invalid names: Plesiosorex talpoides Pomel 1848 [synonym]
Plesiosorex styriacus Hoffmann 1892
Invalid names: Meterix Hall 1929 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available