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Pliohyrax

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Taxonomy
Pliohyrax was named by Osborn (1899). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Pliohyracinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989); and to Pliohyracidae by Carroll (1988), Kalmykov (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Pliohyrax Osborn
1988Pliohyrax Carroll
1989Pliohyrax Prothero and Schoch p. 531
2013Pliohyrax Kalmykov p. 827

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
superorderPaenungulata
orderHyracoideaHuxley 1869
familyPliohyracidae
genusPliohyraxOsborn 1899

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. †Pliohyrax Osborn 1899
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available