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Sespia nitida

Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

Taxonomy
Leptauchenia nitida was named by Leidy (1869). Its type locality is Eagle Nest Butte (Sharps Fm.), which is in an Arikareean fluvial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota.

It was recombined as Sespia nitida by Schultz and Falkenbach (1968), Macdonald (1970), Lander (1983), CoBabe (1996), Lander (1998), Hoffman and Prothero (2004) and Stevens and Stevens (2007).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1869Leptauchenia nitida Leidy
1884Leptauchenia nitida Cope p. 546
1902Leptauchenia nitida Hay p. 670
1937Leptauchenia nitida Thorpe p. 240 figs. PI. XXXVI, figs. 1-3
1940Leptauchenia nitida Scott p. 706
1968Sespia marianae Schultz and Falkenbach
1968Sespia nitida Schultz and Falkenbach
1970Sespia nitida Macdonald
1983Sespia nitida Lander
1996Sespia nitida CoBabe
1998Sespia nitida Lander
2004Sespia nitida Hoffman and Prothero p. 159
2007Sespia nitida Stevens and Stevens p. 158

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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()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
familyMerycoidodontidae
subfamilyLeptaucheniinaeSchultz and Falkenbach 1940
genusSespia()
speciesnitida(Leidy 1869)

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.

Sespia nitida Leidy 1869
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Invalid names: Sespia marianae Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available