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Tetraclaenodon puercensis

Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

Taxonomy
Phenacodus puercensis was named by Cope (1881).

It was recombined as Protogonia puercensis by Cope (1888); it was recombined as Euprotogonia puercensis by Osborn and Earle (1895) and Matthew (1897); it was recombined as Tetraclaenodon puercensis by Hay (1902), Matthew (1915), Matthew (1937), West (1970), West (1971), West (1976), Rigby (1980), Winterfeld (1982), McKenna et al. (1987), Thewissen (1990), Secord (1998) and Scott et al. (2013).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1881Phenacodus puercensis Cope p. 492
1881Protogonia subquadrata Cope p. 492
1882Protogonia plicifera Cope p. 833
1883Phenacodus calceolatus Cope p. 561
1888Protogonia puercensis Cope
1888Protogonia zuniensis Cope
1888Mioclaenus floverianus Cope p. 330
1892Tetraclaenodon floverianus Scott p. 300
1893Euprotogonia subquadrata Cope
1895Euprotogonia puercensis Osborn and Earle
1897Euprotogonia minor Matthew
1897Tetraclaenodon minor Matthew
1897Euprotogonia puercensis Matthew p. 303
1897Euprotogonia minor Matthew p. 310 figs. Figure 13
1902Tetraclaenodon minor Hay p. 603
1902Tetraclaenodon puercensis Hay p. 603
1902Tetraclaenodon subquadratus Hay p. 603
1915Tetraclaenodon floverianus Granger
1915Tetraclaenodon puercensis Matthew
1935Tetraclaenodon symbolicus Gidley
1937Tetraclaenodon pliciferus Matthew
1937Tetraclaenodon puercensis Matthew
1937Tetraclaenodon subquadratus Matthew
1937Tetraclaenodon subquadratus Simpson
1970Tetraclaenodon puercensis West p. 852
1971Tetraclaenodon pliciferus West
1971Tetraclaenodon puercensis West
1972Tetraclaenodon floverianus Melville
1976Tetraclaenodon puercensis West
1980Tetraclaenodon puercensis Rigby, Jr.
1982Tetraclaenodon puercensis Winterfeld
1987Tetraclaenodon puercensis McKenna et al.
1990Tetraclaenodon puercensis Thewissen
1998Tetraclaenodon puercensis Secord
2013Tetraclaenodon puercensis Scott 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
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
Phenacodonta
familyPhenacodontidaeCope 1881
genusTetraclaenodon
speciespuercensis()

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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Invalid names: Mioclaenus floverianus Cope 1888 [synonym], Phenacodus calceolatus Cope 1883 [synonym], Protogonia plicifera Cope 1882 [synonym], Protogonia subquadrata Cope 1881 [synonym], Protogonia zuniensis Cope 1888 [synonym], Tetraclaenodon symbolicus Gidley 1935 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available