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Hypsiops latidens
Taxonomy
Mesoreodon latidens was named by Douglass (1907). Its type specimen is CM 908, a partial skull (a skull and a mandible lacking portions of the angles), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Merycoides latidens by Loomis (1924), Schlaikjer (1934) and Thorpe (1937); it was synonymized subjectively with Mesoreodon chelonyx by Schultz and Falkenbach (1949) and Tabrum and Nichols (2001); it was recombined as Eporeodon latidens by Lander (1998); it was recombined as Hypsiops latidens by Stevens et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Merycoides latidens by Loomis (1924), Schlaikjer (1934) and Thorpe (1937); it was synonymized subjectively with Mesoreodon chelonyx by Schultz and Falkenbach (1949) and Tabrum and Nichols (2001); it was recombined as Eporeodon latidens by Lander (1998); it was recombined as Hypsiops latidens by Stevens et al. (2023).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1907 | Mesoreodon latidens Douglass p. 101 figs. Pl. 25 |
| 1924 | Merycoides latidens Loomis |
| 1924 | Promerycochoerus pygmyus Loomis |
| 1934 | Merycoides latidens Schlaikjer |
| 1937 | Promerycochoerus vantasselensis pygmaeus Thorpe p. 150 figs. Fig. Ill; PI. XX, figs. 2-3 |
| 1937 | Merycoides latidens Thorpe p. 173 figs. Fig. 125; PI. XXVI |
| 1949 | Promerycochoerus (Pseudopromerycochoerus) minor pygmyus Schultz and Falkenbach p. 124 figs. Figures 8-12, 25, 26 |
| 1998 | Eporeodon latidens Lander |
| 1998 | Eporeodon pygmyus Lander |
| 2023 | Hypsiops latidens Stevens et al. p. 86 figs. Figure 69 |
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†Hypsiops latidens Douglass 1907
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Invalid names: Promerycochoerus pygmyus Loomis 1924 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. S. Stevens et al. 2023 | Smallest species of Hypsiops |