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Nanodelphys huntii

Mammalia

Taxonomy
Herpetotherium huntii was named by Cope (1873).

It was recombined as Peratherium huntii by Cope (1884), Hay (1930) and Galbreath (1953); it was recombined as Didelphis huntii by Hay (1901) and Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Herpetotherium fuzax by Hough (1961), Krishtalka and Stucky (1983) and Korth (1992); it was synonymized subjectively with Peratherium fugax by Ostrander (1987); it was recombined as Nanodelphys hunti by Korth (1994) and Lofgren et al. (2020); it was recombined as Nanodelphys huntii by Korth et al. (2022).

Synonyms
  • Miothen gracile was named by Cope (1873) [although named on the same page as M. crassigenis, M. gracile cannot be the genotype because Korth 1994a places it in the junior genus Nanodelphys].

    It was recombined as Domnina gracilis by Cope (1875); it was synonymized subjectively with Peratherium huntii by Cope (1884) and Scott (1941); it was synonymized subjectively with Didelphis fugax by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Herpetotherium fuzax by Hough (1961); it was synonymized subjectively with Nanodelphys hunti by Korth (1994).
  • Nanodelphys minutus was named by McGrew (1937) [genotype]. Its type locality is North of Zerbst Ranch (Upper), which is in an Orellan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of Nebraska. It is the type species of Nanodelphys.

    It was recombined as Peradectes minutus by Crochet (1978), Bown (1979), Crochet (1980) and Krishtalka and Stucky (1983); it was synonymized subjectively with Nanodelphys hunti by Korth (1994).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Herpetotherium huntii Cope p. 5
1873Miothen gracile Cope p. 8
1875Domnina gracilis Cope p. 470
1884Peratherium huntii Cope
1901Didelphis huntii Hay
1902Didelphis huntii Hay p. 571
1930Peratherium huntii Hay p. 393
1937Nanodelphys minutus McGrew
1953Peratherium huntii Galbreath
1978Peradectes minutus Crochet
1979Peradectes minutus Bown
1980Peradectes minutus Crochet
1981Nanodelphys minutus Marshall
1983Peradectes minutus Krishtalka and Stucky
1984Nanodelphys minutus Russell
1987Nanodelphys minutus Ostrander
1994Nanodelphys hunti Korth
2020Nanodelphys hunti Lofgren et al.
2022Nanodelphys huntii Korth et al.

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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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
—Marsupialia()
—Peradectidae(Crochet 1979)
subfamilyPeradectinaeCrochet 1979
genusNanodelphysMcGrew 1937
specieshuntii()

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.

†Nanodelphys huntii Cope 1873
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Invalid names: Miothen gracile Cope 1873 [synonym], Nanodelphys minutus McGrew 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available