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Barbourofelis whitfordi

Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae

Taxonomy
Eusmilus whitfordi was named by Barbour and Cook (1915). Its type specimen is UNSM 7-2-4-13, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Whitford's Quarry No. 2, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.

It was recombined as Megantereon whitfordi by Gregory (1942); it was recombined as Albanosmilus whitfordi by Kitts (1957); it was recombined as Sansanosmilus whitfordi by Mawby (1965); it was recombined as Barbourofelis whitfordi by Schultz et al. (1970), Baskin (1981), Voorhies (1990) and Tseng et al. (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Eusmilus whitfordi Barbour and Cook
1919Ischyrosmilus osborni Merriam p. 545
1942Megantereon osborni Gregory
1942Megantereon whitfordi Gregory
1957Albanosmilus osborni Kitts
1957Albanosmilus whitfordi Kitts
1965Sansanosmilus osborni Mawby
1965Sansanosmilus whitfordi Mawby
1970Barbourofelis osborni Schultz et al.
1970Barbourofelis whitfordi Schultz et al.
1981Barbourofelis osborni Baskin
1981Barbourofelis whitfordi Baskin
1990Barbourofelis whitfordi Voorhies
2010Barbourofelis whitfordi Tseng et al. p. 246 figs. 2, 3

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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
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderFeliformiaKretzoi 1945
familyNimravidaeCope 1880
subfamilyBarbourofelinaeSchultz et al. 1970
genusBarbourofelis
specieswhitfordi()

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.

Barbourofelis whitfordi Barbour and Cook 1915
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Invalid names: Ischyrosmilus osborni Merriam 1919 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
Z. J. Tseng et al. 2010The smallest species of Barbourofelis; incisor se- ries simple with gradual increase in size from i1 to i3; p3 unre- duced, with both anterior and posterior accessory cusps as in Sansanosmilus, but unlike other species of Barbourofelis that have greatly reduced or lost these cusps; the anterior accessory cusp of p4 is lower-crowned than other Barbourofelis species; m1 protoconid only slightly longer than m1 paraconid, not signifi- cantly longer as in some B. loveorum; anterior ridge of P4 pre- parastyle bifurcated.