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Lophiotherium

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae

Taxonomy
Lophiotherium was named by Marsh (1871). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Orotherium by Marsh (1872); it was synonymized subjectively with Pachynolophus by Roger (1896); it was synonymized subjectively with Orohippus by Matthew (1899), Hay (1902), Granger (1908), Stirton (1940) and Kitts (1957).

It was assigned to Anchitheridae by Leidy (1873); to Hyracotheriinae by Cope (1881); to Equidae by Marsh (1871) and Carroll (1988); to Palaeotheriidae by Hooker (1986), Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Remy (2017); and to Pachynolophinae by Remy et al. (2019).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Lophiotherium Marsh
1873Lophiotherium Leidy p. 327
1881Lophiotherium Cope p. 381
1986Lophiotherium Hooker p. 347
1988Lophiotherium Carroll
1989Lophiotherium Prothero and Schoch p. 532
2017Lophiotherium Remy
2019Lophiotherium Remy 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()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
superfamilyEquoidea
familyPalaeotheriidaeBonaparte 1850
subfamilyPachynolophinaePaulow 1877
genusLophiotheriumMarsh 1871

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. †Lophiotherium Marsh 1871
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Lophiotherium cervulum Gervais 1849
Lophiotherium robiacense Deperet 1917
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available