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Mylodontoidea
Taxonomy
Mylodontoidea was named by Gill (1872) [Raised from family status].
It was assigned to Pilosa by Paula Couto (1956); to Pilosa by Carroll (1988); to Tardigrada by Villarroel (2000); and to Folivora by Shockey and Anaya (2011).
It was assigned to Pilosa by Paula Couto (1956); to Pilosa by Carroll (1988); to Tardigrada by Villarroel (2000); and to Folivora by Shockey and Anaya (2011).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Mylodontoidea Gill |
| 1956 | Mylodontoidea Paula Couto p. 100 |
| 1988 | Mylodontoidea Carroll |
| 2000 | Mylodontoidea Villarroel p. 118 |
| 2011 | Mylodontoidea Shockey and Anaya |
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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.
Superfm. †Mylodontoidea Gill 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Tortonian or 28.40000 to 7.24600 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Peru (Loreto) | Mylodontoidea indet. (176147) | |
| Tortonian | Peru | Mylodontoidea indet. (176133) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Venezuela (Falcón) | Eionaletherium tanycnemius (174730) |