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Bothriodon
Taxonomy
Bothriodon was named by Aymard (1846) [type is the European species B. velaunus von Meyer 1832]. It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Ancodon by Hay (1902) and Andrews (1906).
It was assigned to Anthracotheriidae by Aymard (1846), Scott (1913), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Thewissen et al. (2001); and to Bothriodontinae by Scott (1940) and Scherler et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ancodon by Hay (1902) and Andrews (1906).
It was assigned to Anthracotheriidae by Aymard (1846), Scott (1913), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Thewissen et al. (2001); and to Bothriodontinae by Scott (1940) and Scherler et al. (2019).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Bothriodon Aymard |
| 1848 | Hyopotamus Owen |
| 1848 | Ancodus Pomel pp. 324-325 |
| 1857 | Choeropotamus (Hyopotamus) Leidy p. 89 |
| 1857 | Hyopotamus Leidy p. 89 |
| 1908 | Ancodus Lambe |
| 1913 | Bothriodon Scott p. 361 |
| 1940 | Bothriodon Scott p. 443 figs. Plates XLV, XLVI, XLVIII |
| 1988 | Bothriodon Carroll |
| 1997 | Bothriodon McKenna and Bell p. 405 |
| 2001 | Bothriodon Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2019 | Bothriodon Scherler 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. †Bothriodon Aymard 1846
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†Bothriodon advena Russell 1978
†Bothriodon chowi Xu 1961
†Bothriodon sandaensis Tsubamoto 2007
†Bothriodon velaunus von Meyer 1832
Invalid names: Ancodus Pomel 1848 [synonym], Hyopotamus Leidy 1857 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available