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Caenolophus
Taxonomy
Caenolophus was named by Matthew and Granger (1925). Its type is Caenolophus promissus.
It was assigned to Rhinocerotoidea by Wall and Manning (1986); to Hyracodontidae by Matthew and Granger (1925) and Carroll (1988); and to Amynodontidae by Prothero and Schoch (1989).
It was assigned to Rhinocerotoidea by Wall and Manning (1986); to Hyracodontidae by Matthew and Granger (1925) and Carroll (1988); and to Amynodontidae by Prothero and Schoch (1989).
Species
C. magnus, C. obliquus, C. progressus, C. promissus (type species), C. suprametalophus, Teilhardia pretiosa
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Caenolophus Matthew and Granger |
| 1926 | Teilhardia Matthew and Granger p. 3 |
| 1979 | Euryodon Xu et al. |
| 1986 | Caenolophus Wall and Manning p. 917 |
| 1988 | Caenolophus Carroll |
| 1988 | Euryodon Carroll |
| 1988 | Teilhardia Carroll |
| 1989 | Caenolophus Prothero and Schoch p. 534 |
| 1989 | Teilhardia Prothero and Schoch p. 534 |
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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. †Caenolophus Matthew and Granger 1925
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†Caenolophus magnus Shi 1989
†Caenolophus obliquus Matthew and Granger 1925
†Caenolophus progressus Matthew and Granger 1925
†Caenolophus promissus Matthew and Granger 1925
†Caenolophus suprametalophus Shi 1989
Invalid names: Euryodon Xu et al. 1979 [synonym], Teilhardia Prothero and Schoch 1989 [synonym], Teilhardina Prothero and Schoch 1989 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Colbert and Schoch 1998 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 47.80000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Sharamurunian | China (Shanxi) | C. proficiens, C. promissus (42197) | |
| Sharamurunian | China (Henan) | C. promissus (42162) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Henan) | C. sp. (46193) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Shandong) | C. sp., C. proficiens, C. suprametalophus, C. magnus (175281) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | C. promissus, C. obliquus, C. progressus (174962) Teilhardia pretiosa, C. promissus (174721) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | North Korea (Hwanghae-do) | C. makii (48621) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | China (Shanxi) | C. proficiens (42195 42199) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene - Oligocene | North Korea (Kokai-do) | C. makii (13997) |