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Purgatorius titusi

Mammalia - Primates - Purgatoriidae

Taxonomy
Purgatorius titusi was named by Buckley (1997). Its type specimen is UM 100203, a tooth (upper right M1), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Simpson Quarry, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in the Bear Formation of Montana.

It was synonymized subjectively with Purgatorius unio by Wilson Mantilla et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Purgatorius titusi Buckley

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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
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
Euarchonta
orderPrimates
suborderPlesiadapiformesSimons and Tattersall 1972
familyPurgatoriidae
genusPurgatorius
speciestitusi

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.

Purgatorius titusi Buckley 1997
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Diagnosis
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