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Stibarus
Taxonomy
Stibarus was named by Cope (1873).
It was assigned to Leptomerycinae by Hay (1902); to Leptochoerinae by Edwards (1976), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Stucky (1998); and to Leptochoeridae by Cope (1873), Scott (1913), Scott (1940), Theodor et al. (2007) and Korth et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Leptomerycinae by Hay (1902); to Leptochoerinae by Edwards (1976), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Stucky (1998); and to Leptochoeridae by Cope (1873), Scott (1913), Scott (1940), Theodor et al. (2007) and Korth et al. (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1873 | Menotherium Cope |
1873 | Stibarus Cope |
1874 | Menotherium Cope p. 22 |
1902 | Stibarus Hay p. 672 |
1902 | Menotherium Hay p. 792 |
1913 | Stibarus Scott p. 361 |
1940 | Stibarus Scott p. 370 |
1955 | Nanochoerus Macdonald |
1976 | Stibarus Edwards p. 100 |
1988 | Nanochoerus Carroll |
1988 | Stibarus Carroll p. 363 |
1997 | Stibarus McKenna and Bell p. 401 |
1998 | Stibarus Stucky p. 363 |
2007 | Stibarus Theodor et al. p. 55 |
2022 | Stibarus Korth et al. |
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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. †Stibarus Cope 1873
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†Stibarus montanus Matthew 1903
†Stibarus yoderensis Macdonald 1955
Invalid names: Menotherium Cope 1874 [synonym], Nanochoerus Macdonald 1955 [synonym]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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P. Edwards 1976 | Skull with pinched rostrum. Massive, buno- dont lower molars which appear subscrescentic when little worn, with reduced paraconids. P/2, P2/, and P/3 are low and tri-cusped, the medial cusp being largest. M1-3/ are triangular with a sharp lingual apex. Stibarus is the smaller- sized genus of the subfamily |