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Taxonomy
Pliauchenia spatula was named by Cope (1893).
It was recombined as Megatylopus spatula by Gregory (1939); it was recombined as Titanotylopus spatulus by Webb (1965), Breyer (1976) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Gigantocamelus spatulus by Barbour and Schultz (1939), Meade (1945), Hibbard and Riggs (1949), Hibbard (1953), Dalquest (1992), Kelly (1994), Repenning et al. (1995) and Honey et al. (1998).
It was recombined as Megatylopus spatula by Gregory (1939); it was recombined as Titanotylopus spatulus by Webb (1965), Breyer (1976) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Gigantocamelus spatulus by Barbour and Schultz (1939), Meade (1945), Hibbard and Riggs (1949), Hibbard (1953), Dalquest (1992), Kelly (1994), Repenning et al. (1995) and Honey et al. (1998).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1893 | Pliauchenia spatula Cope p. 70 |
| 1901 | Pliauchenia spatula Matthew p. 426 |
| 1902 | Pliauchenia spatula Hay p. 680 |
| 1939 | Gigantocamelus fricki Barbour and Schultz |
| 1939 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Barbour and Schultz |
| 1939 | Megatylopus spatula Gregory p. 367 |
| 1945 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Meade |
| 1949 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Hibbard and Riggs |
| 1953 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Hibbard |
| 1965 | Titanotylopus spatulus Webb |
| 1976 | Titanotylopus spatulus Breyer p. 785 |
| 1980 | Titanotylopus spatulus Kurten and Anderson p. 302 |
| 1992 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Dalquest |
| 1994 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Kelly |
| 1995 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Repenning et al. |
| 1998 | Gigantocamelus spatulus Honey et al. |
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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.
†Gigantocamelus spatulus Cope 1893
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Invalid names: Gigantocamelus fricki Barbour and Schultz 1939 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Breyer 1976 | is distin- guished from T. nebraskensis by a longer /C-P/3 diastema (see Table 5) and a shorter mandibular symphysis (see Text-fig. 3). |