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Moropus
Taxonomy
Moropus was named by Marsh (1877). Its type is Moropus distans. It is the type genus of Moropodinae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Macrotherium by Osborn (1893).
It was assigned to Moropodidae by Marsh (1877); to Moropodinae by Holland and Peterson (1913); to Schizotherini by Colbert (1935); to Chalicotheriidae by Marsh (1877), Hay (1902), Peterson (1907), Scott (1913), Skinner (1968), Coombs (1978), Carroll (1988), Coombs (1998) and Holbrook (1999); and to Schizotheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Geraads et al. (2007).
It was synonymized subjectively with Macrotherium by Osborn (1893).
It was assigned to Moropodidae by Marsh (1877); to Moropodinae by Holland and Peterson (1913); to Schizotherini by Colbert (1935); to Chalicotheriidae by Marsh (1877), Hay (1902), Peterson (1907), Scott (1913), Skinner (1968), Coombs (1978), Carroll (1988), Coombs (1998) and Holbrook (1999); and to Schizotheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Geraads et al. (2007).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1877 | Moropus Marsh |
1902 | Moropus Hay p. 691 |
1907 | Moropus Peterson |
1913 | Moropus Holland and Peterson p. 206 |
1913 | Moropus Scott p. 291 |
1935 | Moropus Colbert p. 13 |
1968 | Moropus Skinner |
1978 | Moropus Coombs |
1988 | Moropus Carroll |
1989 | Moropus Prothero and Schoch p. 533 |
1998 | Moropus Coombs |
1999 | Moropus Holbrook p. 346 |
2007 | Moropus Geraads et al. p. 464 |
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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. †Moropus Marsh 1877
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†Moropus betpakdalensis Flerov 1938
†Moropus distans Marsh 1877
†Moropus elatus Marsh 1877
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Invalid names: Moropus cooki Barbour 1908 [synonym], Moropus parvus Barbour 1909 [synonym], Moropus petersoni Holland 1908 [synonym]
†Moropus hollandi Peterson 1913
†Moropus matthewi Holland and Peterson 1913
†Moropus maximus Holland and Peterson 1914
†Moropus merriami Holland and Peterson 1913
†Moropus oregonensis Leidy 1873
†Moropus senex Marsh 1877
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available