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Periptychus carinidens

Mammalia - Periptychidae

Taxonomy

Periptychus carinidens was named by Cope (1881) [genotype].

Synonyms

Catathlaeus rhabdodon was named by Cope (1881) [genotype; sometimes said to be 1885; said by Rigby 1980 to have been named in the genus Periptychus, but this is a lapsus; see Matthew 1937].

It was recombined as Periptychus rhabdodon by Cope (1882), Cope (1884), Matthew (1897), Hay (1902), Matthew (1937) and Simons (1963); it was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus carinidens by Simpson (1959), Lucas (1980), Rigby (1980), Taylor (1981), Tomida (1981), Williamson and Lucas (1993), Williamson (1996) and Secord (1998).
Eohyus robustus was named by Marsh (1894).

It was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus by Sinclair (1914) and Granger (1915); it was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus rhabdodon by Simons (1963); it was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus carinidens by Lucas (1980).
Periptychus gilmorei was named by Gazin (1938) [original combination? used by Schiebout 1974, Robison 1986, Williamson 1996].

It was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus carinidens by Williamson and Lucas (1993) and Williamson (1996).
Periptychus superstes was named by Matthew (1935) [in Simpson].

It was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus rhabdodon by Matthew (1937); it was synonymized subjectively with Periptychus carinidens by Simpson (1959), Williamson and Lucas (1993) and Williamson (1996).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1881	Periptychus carinidens Cope p. 337
1881	Catathlaeus rhabdodon Cope p. 847
1882	Periptychus rhabdodon Cope p. 465
1884	Periptychus rhabdodon Cope
1894	Eohyus robustus Marsh p. 260
1897	Periptychus rhabdodon Matthew p. 296
1897	Periptychus carinidens Matthew p. 297
1902	Eohyus robustus Hay p. 651
1902	Periptychus carinidens Hay p. 693
1902	Periptychus rhabdodon Hay p. 693
1935	Periptychus superstes Matthew
1937	Periptychus rhabdodon Matthew
1938	Periptychus gilmorei Gazin
1941	Periptychus gilmorei Gazin pp. 43 - 45 figs. Figures 23, 24
1963	Periptychus rhabdodon Simons
1974	Periptychus superstes Schiebout

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Bulbulodentata
family	Periptychidae	Cope 1882
subfamily	Periptychinae	Osborn and Earle 1895
genus	Periptychus
species	carinidens

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.

†Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881

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Invalid names: Catathlaeus rhabdodon Cope 1881 [synonym], Eohyus robustus Marsh 1894 [synonym], Periptychus gilmorei Gazin 1938 [synonym], Periptychus superstes Matthew 1935 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available