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Hoplophoneus
Taxonomy
Hoplophoneus was named by Cope (1874). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Drepanodon by Palmer (1904) and Scott and Jepsen (1936).
It was assigned to Machairodontinae by Hay (1902); to Hoplophoneinae by Flynn and Galiano (1982); to Nimravidae by Cope (1874), Cope (1880), Simpson (1941), Hough (1949) and Martin (1998); to Nimravinae by Bryant (1991), Peigné (2003) and Slater and Van Valkenburgh (2008); and to Hoplophoneini by Barrett (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Drepanodon by Palmer (1904) and Scott and Jepsen (1936).
It was assigned to Machairodontinae by Hay (1902); to Hoplophoneinae by Flynn and Galiano (1982); to Nimravidae by Cope (1874), Cope (1880), Simpson (1941), Hough (1949) and Martin (1998); to Nimravinae by Bryant (1991), Peigné (2003) and Slater and Van Valkenburgh (2008); and to Hoplophoneini by Barrett (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1874 | Hoplophoneus Cope |
| 1880 | Hoplophoneus Cope p. 836 |
| 1895 | Dinotomius Williston |
| 1902 | Hoplophoneus Hay p. 778 |
| 1941 | Hoplophoneus Simpson |
| 1949 | Hoplophoneus Hough |
| 1963 | Ekgmoiteptecela Macdonald |
| 1982 | Hoplophoneus Flynn and Galiano p. 53 |
| 1991 | Hoplophoneus Bryant p. 69 |
| 1998 | Hoplophoneus Martin |
| 2003 | Hoplophoneus Peigné |
| 2008 | Hoplophoneus Slater and Van Valkenburgh p. 407 |
| 2016 | Hoplophoneus Barrett p. e1658 |
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G. †Hoplophoneus Cope 1874
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†Hoplophoneus cerebralis Cope 1880
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Invalid names: Ekgmoiteptecela olsontau Macdonald 1963 [synonym], Hoplophoneus belli Stock 1933 [synonym]
†Hoplophoneus crassidens Cragin 1892
†Hoplophoneus dakotensis Hatcher 1895
†Hoplophoneus oharrai Jepsen 1926
†Hoplophoneus primaevus Leidy and Owen 1851
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Invalid names: Hoplophoneus insolens Adams 1896 [synonym], Hoplophoneus latidens Thorpe 1920 [synonym], Hoplophoneus marshi Thorpe 1920 [synonym], Hoplophoneus mentalis Sinclair 1921 [synonym], Hoplophoneus molossus Thorpe 1920 [synonym], Hoplophoneus oreodontis Cope 1873 [synonym], Hoplophoneus robustus Adams 1896 [synonym]
†Hoplophoneus sicarius Sinclair and Jepsen 1927
†Hoplophoneus strigidens Cope 1878
Invalid names: Dinotomius Williston 1895 [synonym], Ekgmoiteptecela Macdonald 1963 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Z. Barrett 2016 | Absence of lateral and medial fossae on the zygomata; triangular zygomata in dorsal view; petrobasilar and posterior lacerate foramina form two distinct grooves; large tabular mastoid with reduced to near absent paroccipital process; incisors all caniniform, i1 very transversely compressed and i3 nearly as large as the lower canine; serration density of permanent upper canines per millimeter, 2.8 or greater; parastyle on P4; P4 protocone reduced, short, crest-like or absent; M1 transversely reduced, crest-like, with low cusps and near absent to absent protocone; lower incisor arcade curved; p3 height is as tall or slightly taller than p4; anterior cusp on p4 mesially-distally shorter than the posterior cusp; the maincusp of the p4 is lower than the paraconid of m1; m1 metaconid present; serrations present on adult minimally worn cheek teeth; ratio of tibia to femur 83% and lower; articulation between the calcaneum and navicular absent. |