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Synthetoceras tricornatus

Mammalia - Protoceratidae

Taxonomy
Synthetoceras tricornatus was named by Stirton (1932) [genotype]. Its type specimen is UCMP 31520, a partial skeleton ([skull] slightly crushed on right side, some displacement of left orbit and pterygoid region; major portion of right branch and tip of left branch of rostral ho), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bromley Ranch, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Synthetoceras tricornatus Stirton p. 147 figs. 1 - 3; Plate 6 - 11
1981Synthetoceras tricornatus Thurmond and Jones p. 189
2019Synthetoceras tricornatus May

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Ruminantiamorpha
familyProtoceratidae
subfamilySynthetoceratinaeFrick 1937
genusSynthetoceras
speciestricornatus

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.

†Synthetoceras tricornatus Stirton 1932
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available