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Goniacodon

Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae

Taxonomy
Goniacodon was named by Scott (1892) [questioned by Williamson 1996; first use as genus; named as subgenus of Mioclaenus by Cope 1888, sometimes falsely said to be Cope 1883]. Its type is Triisodon levisianus.

It was assigned to Cete by Archibald (1998); to Triisodontinae by Zhou et al. (1995) and St. Clair et al. (2010); and to Triisodontidae by Scott (1892), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), McKenna and Bell (1997), Tabuce et al. (2011) and Scott et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Goniacodon Scott
1902Goniacodon Hay p. 748
1930Goniacodon Hay p. 465
1995Goniacodon Zhou et al. p. 394
1997Goniacodon McKenna and Bell p. 366
1998Goniacodon Archibald p. 316
2010Goniacodon St. Clair et al.
2011Goniacodon Tabuce et al. p. 152
2013Goniacodon Scott et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
orderAcreodiMatthew 1909
familyTriisodontidae
genusGoniacodonScott 1892

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. †Goniacodon Scott 1892
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Goniacodon hiawathae Van Valen 1978
Goniacodon levisanus Cope 1883
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available