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Tetralophodon
Taxonomy
Tetralophodon was named by Falconer (1857) [type is a European species; also attributed to Warren 1852 by Matthew 1918a]. It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Lambert (2007).
It was synonymized subjectively with Gomphotherium by Hay (1923) and Peterson (1928).
It was assigned to Longirostrinae by Osborn (1924); to Elephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantoidea by Tassy (1996) and Lambert and Shoshani (1998); to Elephantoidea by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); and to Gomphotheriidae by Falconer (1857), Carroll (1988), Geraads et al. (2005) and Lambert (2007).
It was synonymized subjectively with Gomphotherium by Hay (1923) and Peterson (1928).
It was assigned to Longirostrinae by Osborn (1924); to Elephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantoidea by Tassy (1996) and Lambert and Shoshani (1998); to Elephantoidea by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); and to Gomphotheriidae by Falconer (1857), Carroll (1988), Geraads et al. (2005) and Lambert (2007).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1857 | Tetralophodon Falconer |
1924 | Tetralophodon Osborn p. 1 |
1988 | Tetralophodon Carroll |
1996 | Tetralophodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 352 |
1996 | Tetralophodon Tassy |
1997 | Tetralophodon McKenna and Bell p. 502 |
1998 | Tetralophodon Lambert and Shoshani p. 615 |
2005 | Tetralophodon Geraads et al. p. 529 |
2005 | Tetralophodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
2007 | Tetralophodon Lambert p. 681 |
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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. †Tetralophodon Falconer 1857
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Subg. †Tetralophodon (Lydekkeria) Osborn 1924
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†Tetralophodon (Lydekkeria) falconeri Lydekker 1880
Subg. †Tetralophodon (Tetralophodon) Falconer 1857
†Tetralophodon elegans Hay 1916
†Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Lillegraven 1979 |
Collections (46 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Miocene | Portugal | T. longirostris (200324) | |
Miocene | China (Yunnan) | T. sp. (42483) | |
Middle Miocene | India (Jammu and Kashmir) | T. sp. (11797) | |
Serravallian | China (Jiangsu) | T. sp. (42249) | |
Serravallian | Moldova (Chișinău) | T. longirostris (210536) | |
Serravallian - Tortonian | Ethiopia | T. sp. (22157) | |
Serravallian - Tortonian | Tunisia (Gafsa) | T. longirostris (35277) | |
MN 7 + 8 | Spain | T. longirostris (78058) | |
Sarmatian | Romania (Vaslui) | T. longirostris (197472) | |
Tortonian | Ukraine | Mastodon longirostris (75089 75800 76299) | |
Tortonian | Ukraine (Odessa) | Mastodon longirostris (75794 75797) | |
Tortonian | Tunisia | T. sp. (65170) | |
Tortonian | Germany (Bavaria) | T. longirostris (206345) | |
Tortonian | Austria (Niederösterreich) | Mastodon longirostris (45042 45044) | |
Tortonian | Georgia | Mastodon longirostris (73901) | |
Tortonian | Ukraine (Izmail) | Mastodon longirostris (76313) | |
Tortonian | Ukraine (Crimea) | T. longirostris (85514) | |
Tortonian | Moldova | Mastodon longirostris (75802 75803) T. longirostris (152254) | |
Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | T. exoletus (11798) | |
Vallesian | Spain (Catalonia) | T. sp. (38977) | |
Vallesian | Spain (Segovia) | T. longirostris (40768) | |
Vallesian | China (Ningxia) | T. exoletus (42261) | |
Vallesian | China (shaanxi) | T. exoletus (42254) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Tunisia | T. sp. (34805) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Ukraine | Mastodon longirostris (76553) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima) | T. sp. (144187) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Kassandra) | T. longirostris (202330 202500 202501) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Morocco | T. sp. (210194) | |
MN 9 | Hungary (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) | T. longirostris (75481) | |
MN 10 | Turkey (Thrace) | T. longirostris (67661) | |
MN 10 - MN 11 | China (Shaanxi) | T. exoletus (78320 78324) | |
MN 11 | Georgia | Mastodon sp. (75087) | |
Turolian | Bulgaria | T. atticus (208566 208567 208568) | |
Messinian | Bulgaria | T. longirostris (215636) | |
Pliocene | Ukraine (Odessa) | T. logirostris (76502) |