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Subhyracodon occidentalis

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Rhinoceros occidentalis was named by Leidy (1850) [mentioned as a nomen nudum in 1850 and 1851].

It was recombined as Aceratherium occidentale by Leidy (1869), Cope (1873), Brandt (1878), Cope (1879), Osborn (1898), Lambe (1908) and Osborn (1923); it was synonymized subjectively with Rhinoceros pacificus by Leidy (1873); it was recombined as Caenopus occidentalis by Cope (1891), Osborn (1900), Hay (1901), Hay (1902), Osborn and Matthew (1909) and Sinclair (1924); it was synonymized subjectively with Caenopus mitis by Cope and Matthew (1915); it was synonymized subjectively with Caenopus copei by Troxell (1921); it was recombined as Subhyracodon occidentale by Wood (1929); it was recombined as Subhyracodon occidentalis by Wood (1927), Stock (1933), Scott (1941), Galbreath (1954), Wood (1960), Prothero (1996), Manning (1997), Prothero (1998), Prothero (2005), Antoine et al. (2010) and Lu (2013).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Rhinoceros occidentalis Leidy p. 119
1853Rhinoceros occidentalis Leidy
1854Rhinoceros occidentalis Leidy
1857Rhinoceros occidentalis Leidy p. 89
1865Rhinoceros hesperius Leidy p. 177
1869Aceratherium occidentale Leidy
1873Hyracodon quadriplicatus Cope pp. 1 - 2
1873Aceratherium occidentale Cope p. 14
1873Rhinoceros hesperius Leidy p. 220
1875Aceratherium quadriplicatum Cope
1878Aceratherium occidentale Brandt
1878Aceratherium quadriplicatum Brandt
1879Aceratherium occidentale Cope
1879Anchisodon quadriplicatus Cope
1891Caenopus occidentalis Cope p. 19
1894Aceratherium trigonodum Osborn and Wortman
1898Aceratherium hesperium Osborn
1898Aceratherium occidentale Osborn
1898Leptaceratherium trigonodum Osborn
1899Aceratherium quadriplicatum Matthew
1900Caenopus occidentalis Osborn
1901Caenopus occidentalis Hay
1902Anchisodon quadriplicatus Hay p. 640
1902Caenopus occidentalis Hay p. 643
1902Leptaceratherium trigonodum Hay p. 643
1902Diceratherium hesperium Hay p. 644
1908Aceratherium occidentale Lambe
1908Leptaceratherium trigonodon Lambe
1908Aceratherium exiguum Lambe p. 44
1908Diceratherium hesperium Loomis
1909Anchisodon quadriplicatus Osborn and Matthew
1909Caenopus occidentalis Osborn and Matthew
1921Caenopus trigonodus Troxell
1923Aceratherium occidentale Osborn
1924Caenopus occidentalis Sinclair
1927Subhyracodon gidleyi Wood
1927Subhyracodon metalophum Wood
1927Subhyracodon occidentalis Wood
1927Subhyracodon trigonodus Wood
1929Subhyracodon occidentale Wood p. 63
1933Subhyracodon occidentalis Stock
1933Subhyracodon trigonodus Stock
1941Subhyracodon occidentalis Scott
1941Subhyracodon trigonodus Scott
1954Subhyracodon occidentalis Galbreath
1960Subhyracodon hesperius Wood pp. 88-90
1960Subhyracodon occidentalis Wood pp. 88-90
1996Subhyracodon occidentalis Prothero
1997Subhyracodon occidentalis Manning
1998Subhyracodon occidentalis Prothero
2005Subhyracodon occidentalis Prothero p. 43
2010Subhyracodon occidentalis Antoine et al.
2013Subhyracodon occidentalis Lu

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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
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
genusSubhyracodon
speciesoccidentalis()

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.

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Caenopus trigonodus allus Troxell 1921
Invalid names: Aceratherium exiguum Lambe 1908 [synonym], Aceratherium trigonodum Osborn and Wortman 1894 [synonym], Hyracodon quadriplicatus Cope 1873 [synonym], Subhyracodon gidleyi Wood 1927 [synonym], Subhyracodon hesperius Leidy 1865 [synonym], Subhyracodon metalophum Wood 1927 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available