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Stylinodon mirus

Mammalia

Taxonomy

Stylinodon mirus was named by Marsh (1874) [genotype]. It is the type species of Stylinodon.

Synonyms

Calamodon cylindrifer was named by Cope (1881).

It was recombined as Stylinodon cylindrifer by Wortman (1897), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), White (1952) and Guthrie (1971); it was synonymized subjectively with Stylinodon mirus by Schoch and Lucas (1981), Schoch (1986), Lucas et al. (1998) and Lucas et al. (1998).
Stylinodon inexplicatus was named by Schoch and Lucas (1981). Its type specimen is PU 16102, a partial skeleton (skull, vertebrae, ribs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Washakie A, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Washakie Formation of Wyoming.

It was synonymized subjectively with Stylinodon mirus by Turnbull (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1874	Stylinodon mirus Marsh p. 532
1881	Calamodon cylindrifer Cope p. 184
1897	Stylinodon cylindrifer Wortman
1902	Stylinodon cylindrifer Hay p. 575
1902	Stylinodon mirus Hay p. 575
1930	Stylinodon cylindrifer Hay p. 401
1930	Stylinodon mirus Hay p. 401
1952	Stylinodon cylindrifer White
1971	Stylinodon cylindrifer Guthrie
1981	Stylinodon inexplicatus Schoch and Lucas

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Taeniodonta	(Cope 1876)
—	Stylinodontidae	(Marsh 1875)
genus	Stylinodon
species	mirus

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.

†Stylinodon mirus Marsh 1874

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Invalid names: Calamodon cylindrifer Cope 1881 [synonym], Stylinodon inexplicatus Schoch and Lucas 1981 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available