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Desmatolagus gazini

Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

Taxonomy
Desmatolagus gazini was named by Burke (1936). Its type locality is Badland Creek, which is in an Orellan terrestrial horizon in the "Oreodon Beds" Formation of Nebraska.

It was recombined as Procaprolagus gazini by Storer (1984) and Korth and Hageman (1988).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. schargaltensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Desmatolagus gazini Burke
1984Procaprolagus gazini Storer
1988Procaprolagus gazini Korth and Hageman
2004Desmatolagus gazini Meng and Hu p. 273

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Duplicidentata()
orderLagomorphaBrandt 1885
familyLeporidae
genusDesmatolagus
speciesgazini

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.

†Desmatolagus gazini Burke 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available