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Herpetotherium knighti

Mammalia

Taxonomy
Peratherium knighti was named by McGrew et al. (1959). Its type locality is Hyopsodus Hill, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Herpetotherium knighti by Rothecker and Storer (1996) and Dawson and Constenius (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Entomacodon minutus Marsh p. 214
1872Centracodon delicatus Marsh p. 215
1902Centracodon delicatus Hay p. 740
1902Entomacodon minutus Hay p. 741
1959Peratherium knighti McGrew et al.
1962Peratherium morrisi Gazin
1973Peradectes morrisi Setoguchi
1996Herpetotherium knighti Rothecker and Storer
2018Herpetotherium knighti Dawson and Constenius p. 36

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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
RankNameAuthor
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
Marsupialiformes
Marsupialia()
Herpetotheriidae(Trouessart 1879)
genusHerpetotherium
speciesknighti()

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.

Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
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Invalid names: Centracodon delicatus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Entomacodon minutus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Peratherium morrisi Gazin 1962 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available