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Teilhardina americana

Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

Taxonomy
Teilhardina americana was named by Bown (1976). Its type specimen is UW 6896, a mandible (left dentary with c, possible alveolus for p1, p2-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is No Water (150'), which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Tetonoides americana by Gingerich (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Anemorhysis tenuiculus by Szalay (1982).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Teilhardina americana Bown
1981Tetonoides americana Gingerich
1984Teilhardina americana Bown and Rose
1987Teilhardina americana Bown and Rose
2007Teilhardina americana Hooker p. 750
2011Teilhardina americana Rose et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
Euarchonta
orderPrimates
infraorderHaplorhini(Pocock 1918)
infraorderTarsiiformesGregory 1915
superfamilyOmomyoidea
familyOmomyidae
genusTeilhardina
speciesamericana

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.

Teilhardina americana Bown 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available