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Tritemnodon hians

Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

Taxonomy
Stypolophus hians was named by Cope (1877).

It was recombined as Sinopa hians by Scott (1892), Matthew (1899), Matthew (1901), Matthew (1909) and Matthew and Granger (1915); it was recombined as Tritemnodon hians by Van Valen (1965); it was synonymized subjectively with Tritemnodon strenuus by Guthrie (1967), Gingerich and Deutsch (1989) and Gunnell (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Stypolophus hians Cope
1892Sinopa hians Scott p. 310
1899Sinopa hians Matthew
1901Sinopa hians Matthew
1902Stypolophus hians Hay p. 752
1909Sinopa hians Matthew
1915Sinopa hians Matthew and Granger
1965Tritemnodon hians Van Valen

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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
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
orderCreodonta()
orderHyaenodonta()
superfamilyHyaenodontoideaLeidy 1869
familyHyaenodontidaeLeidy 1869
subfamilySinopinae()
genusTritemnodonMatthew 1906
specieshians(Cope 1877)

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.

†Tritemnodon hians Cope 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available