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Meniscotherium

Osteichthyes - Phenacodontidae

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).

Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2019-09-04

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Meniscotherium Cope
1881Meniscotherium Cope p. 396
1892Hyracops Marsh
1902Meniscotherium Hay p. 605
1902Hyracops Hay p. 606
1988Meniscotherium Carroll
1998Meniscotherium Archibald p. 322
2001Meniscotherium Thewissen et al. p. suppl.
2014Meniscotherium Cooper et al. p. 8 fig. 3
2017Meniscotherium Halliday et al. p. 527

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
Phenacodonta
familyPhenacodontidaeCope 1881
subfamilyMeniscotheriinae(Cope 1882)
genusMeniscotheriumCope 1874

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. †Meniscotherium 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
Invalid names: Hyracops Marsh 1892 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available