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Osmotherium
Taxonomy
Osmotherium was named by Cope (1896). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Melinae by Hay (1902); to Mephitinae by Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Cope (1896), Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008), Eshelman et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Melinae by Hay (1902); to Mephitinae by Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Cope (1896), Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008), Eshelman et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1896 | Osmotherium Cope |
| 1902 | Osmotherium Hay p. 766 |
| 1980 | Osmotherium Kurten and Anderson p. 164 |
| 1988 | Osmotherium Carroll |
| 2005 | Osmotherium Wang et al. p. 937 |
| 2008 | Osmotherium Wang and Carranza-Castaneda |
| 2025 | Osmotherium Eshelman et al. p. 131 |
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G. †Osmotherium Cope 1896
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†Osmotherium spelaeum Cope 1896
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Invalid names: Mephitis fodiens Hall 1936 [synonym], Mephitis fossidens Cope 1896 [synonym], Mephitis leptops Cope 1899 [synonym], Mephitis orthostichus Cope 1896 [synonym], Pelycictis lobulatus Cope 1896 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available