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Taxonomy
Tanupolama blancoensis was named by Meade (1945) [also said to be 1944]. Its type locality is Meade's Quarry 11, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Blanco Formation of Texas.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hemiauchenia macrocephala by Dalquest (1992); it was recombined as Hemiauchenia blancoensis by Webb (1974), Breyer (1977), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Schultz (1990), Kelly (1994), Honey et al. (1998) and Jimenez-Hidalgo and Carranza-Castaneda (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hemiauchenia macrocephala by Dalquest (1992); it was recombined as Hemiauchenia blancoensis by Webb (1974), Breyer (1977), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Schultz (1990), Kelly (1994), Honey et al. (1998) and Jimenez-Hidalgo and Carranza-Castaneda (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1945 | Tanupolama blancoensis Meade |
| 1965 | Tanupolama blancoensis Webb p. 34 |
| 1966 | Tanupolama blancoensis Slaughter p. 84 |
| 1974 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Webb |
| 1977 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Breyer |
| 1980 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Kurten and Anderson p. 306 |
| 1990 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Schultz |
| 1994 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Kelly |
| 1998 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Honey et al. |
| 2010 | Hemiauchenia blancoensis Jimenez-Hidalgo and Carranza-Castaneda pp. 52 - 56 figs. Figure 2, Tables 2, 3 |
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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.
†Hemiauchenia blancoensis Meade 1945
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Jimenez-Hidalgo and O. Carranza-Castaneda 2010 | Occlusal length of the lower tooth row longerthan inH. macrocephalain an equivalent stage of wear,mandibular diastema shorter than inH. macrocephala, longerthan inPleiolama vera(Matthew) 1909 (this species wasformerly included inHemiauchenia); canine laterally com-pressed and situated immediately behind i3, p1 caniniform,separated from the canine by a short diastema, p2 absent, p3 variably present and with two roots; hypsodonty of cheekteeth intermediate betweenP. veraandH. macrocephala; limbsvery long and slender (Hibbard and Riggs, 1949; Webb, 1974;Breyer, 1977; Honey et al., 1998). |