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Pyrotherium
Taxonomy
Pyrotherium was named by Ameghino (1888). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Pyrotheridae.
It was assigned to Pyrotheridae by Ameghino (1894) and Ameghino (1897); and to Pyrotheriidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Pyrotheridae by Ameghino (1894) and Ameghino (1897); and to Pyrotheriidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1888 | Pyrotherium Ameghino p. 10 |
| 1894 | Pyrotherium Ameghino p. 55 |
| 1894 | Pyrotherium Lydekker p. 4 |
| 1897 | Pyrotherium Ameghino p. 441 |
| 1988 | Pyrotherium Carroll |
| 1997 | Pyrotherium McKenna and Bell p. 468 |
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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. †Pyrotherium Ameghino 1888
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†Pyrotherium giganteum Ameghino 1897
†Pyrotherium macfaddeni Shockey and Anaya-Daza 2004
†Pyrotherium planum Ameghino 1897
†Pyrotherium pluteum Ameghino 1901
†Pyrotherium romerii Ameghino 1888
†Pyrotherium sorondoi Ameghino 1894
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available