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Platybelodon barnumbrowni

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Taxonomy
Torynobelodon barnumbrowni was named by Barbour (1931). It is not extant. Its type locality is Platybelodon Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.

It was recombined as Platybelodon barnumbrowni by Barbour (1932), Gregory (1945), Voorhies and Brown (1993), Shoshani and Tassy (1996) and Lambert and Shoshani (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Torynobelodon barnumbrowni Barbour
1932Platybelodon barnumbrowni Barbour
1936Torynobelodon barnumbrowni Osborn
1945Platybelodon barnumbrowni Gregory
1990Torynobelodon barnumbrowni Voorhies
1993Platybelodon barnumbrowni Voorhies and Brown
1996Platybelodon barnumbrowni Shoshani and Tassy
1998Platybelodon barnumbrowni Lambert and Shoshani
2017Torynobelodon barnumbrowni Wang et al. p. 603

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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()
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
familyGomphotheriidaeHay 1922
subfamilyAmebelodontinae
genusPlatybelodonBorissiak 1928
speciesbarnumbrowni()

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.

Platybelodon barnumbrowni Barbour 1931
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available