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Megacerops bucco

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Taxonomy
Symborodon bucco was named by Cope (1873). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Horsetail Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Colorado.

It was synonymized subjectively with Titanotherium torvum by Osborn (1896); it was recombined as Brontotherium bucco by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Megacerops bucco by Osborn (1929); it was considered a nomen dubium by Mader (1989) and Mader (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Symborodon bucco Cope p. 11
1902Brontotherium bucco Hay p. 634
1929Megacerops bucco Osborn p. 544 figs. Plates CXLIV, CXLV, CLIII-CLVI; text figures 169, 170, .378, 392, 393, 399, 449, 719, 744

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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()
familyBrontotheriidae()
subfamilyBrontotheriinaeMarsh 1873
tribeBrontotheriiniMarsh 1873
subtribeBrontotheriinaMarsh 1873
BrontotheriitaMarsh 1873
genusMegacerops
speciesbucco()

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.

Megacerops bucco Cope 1873
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available