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Aprotodon

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Aprotodon was named by Forster-Cooper (1915). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Hyracodontidae by Carroll (1988); and to Teleoceratini by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Aprotodon Forster-Cooper p. 408
1988Aprotodon Carroll
1989Aprotodon Prothero and Schoch p. 535

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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
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
subfamilyRhinocerotinae
tribeRhinocerotini
subtribeTeleoceratina(Hay 1902)
genusAprotodonForster-Cooper 1915

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. †Aprotodon Forster-Cooper 1915
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Aprotodon aralensis Beliajeva 1954
Aprotodon fatehjangense Pilgrim 1912
Aprotodon lanzhouensis Qiu and Xie 1997
Aprotodon smithwoodwardi Forster-Cooper 1915
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available