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Meniscotherium
Taxonomy
Meniscotherium was named by Cope (1874). It is not extant. Its type is Meniscotherium chamense. It is the type genus of Meniscotheriidae.
It was assigned to Chalicotheriidae by Cope (1881); to Meniscotheriidae by Cope (1874), Hay (1902), Carroll (1988); to Phenacodontidae by Thewissen et al. (2001); to Perissodactyla by Cooper et al. (2014); and to Meniscotheriinae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Chalicotheriidae by Cope (1881); to Meniscotheriidae by Cope (1874), Hay (1902), Carroll (1988); to Phenacodontidae by Thewissen et al. (2001); to Perissodactyla by Cooper et al. (2014); and to Meniscotheriinae by Archibald (1998), Halliday et al. (2017).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2019-09-04
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1874 | Meniscotherium Cope |
| 1881 | Meniscotherium Cope p. 396 |
| 1892 | Hyracops Marsh |
| 1902 | Meniscotherium Hay p. 605 |
| 1902 | Hyracops Hay p. 606 |
| 1988 | Meniscotherium Carroll |
| 1998 | Meniscotherium Archibald p. 322 |
| 2001 | Meniscotherium Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2014 | Meniscotherium Cooper et al. p. 8 fig. 3 |
| 2017 | Meniscotherium Halliday et al. p. 527 |
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G. †Meniscotherium Cope 1874
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†Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
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Invalid names: Hyracops socialis Marsh 1892 [synonym], Meniscotherium robustum Thorpe 1934 [synonym], Meniscotherium terraerubrae Cope 1881 [synonym]
†Meniscotherium priscum Granger 1915
†Meniscotherium tapiacitum Cope 1882
Invalid names: Hyracops Marsh 1892 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available