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Phenacodus
Taxonomy
Phenacodus was named by Cope (1873). Its type is Phenacodus primaeous. It is the type genus of Phenacodontidae.
It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Cooper et al. (2014); and to Phenacodontidae by Cope (1873), Hay (1902), Carroll (1988), Archibald (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Rose et al. (2012) and Halliday et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Cooper et al. (2014); and to Phenacodontidae by Cope (1873), Hay (1902), Carroll (1988), Archibald (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Rose et al. (2012) and Halliday et al. (2017).
Species
Opisthotomus astutus, Opisthotomus flagrans, P. bisonensis, P. grangeri (syn. Tetraclaenodon transitus), P. hemiconus, P. intermedius, P. magnus, P. matthewi (syn. P. gidleyi), P. primaevus (syn. P. nuniensis, P. omnivorus, Eohyus distans), P. sulcatus, P. trilobatus (syn. P. robustus), P. vortmani (syn. P. copei, P. apternus, P. almiensis), P. zuniensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1873 | Phenacodus Cope |
1873 | Phenacodus primaeous Cope p. 3 |
1874 | Phenacodus omnivorus Cope |
1875 | Opisthotomus Cope p. 15 |
1875 | Phenacodus omnivorus Cope p. 18 |
1875 | Phenacodus primaevus Cope p. 18 |
1877 | Opisthotomus Schlosser p. 34 |
1882 | Phenacodus hemiconus Cope p. 179 |
1884 | Trispondylus Cope |
1885 | Phenacodus nuniensis Cope |
1894 | Eohyus Marsh |
1894 | Eohyus distans Marsh p. 259 fig. 1 |
1895 | Trispondylus Haeckel p. 534 |
1902 | Phenacodus Hay p. 604 |
1902 | Phenacodus hemiconus Hay p. 604 |
1902 | Phenacodus nuniensis Hay p. 604 |
1902 | Phenacodus omnivorus Hay p. 604 |
1902 | Phenacodus primaevus Hay p. 604 |
1902 | Eohyus Hay p. 651 |
1902 | Eohyus distans Hay p. 651 |
1902 | Opisthotomus Hay p. 792 |
1988 | Phenacodus Carroll |
1998 | Phenacodus Archibald p. 321 |
2001 | Phenacodus Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
2012 | Phenacodus Rose et al. |
2014 | Phenacodus Cooper et al. p. 8 fig. 3 |
2017 | Phenacodus Halliday et al. p. 527 |
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G. †Phenacodus Cope 1873
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†Phenacodus bisonensis Gazin 1956
†Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915
†Phenacodus magnus Thewissen 1990
†Phenacodus sulcatus Cope 1874
†Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880
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Invalid names: Phenacodus almiensis Gazin 1942 [synonym], Phenacodus apternus Cope 1882 [synonym], Phenacodus copei Granger 1915 [synonym]
†Phenacodus zuniensis Cope 1881
Invalid names: Eohyus Marsh 1894 [synonym], Opisthotomus Cope 1875 [synonym], Phenacodus hemiconus Cope 1882 [nomen dubium], Phenacodus primaevus Cope 1873 [nomen dubium], Trispondylus Cope 1884 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available