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Tomarctus hippophaga

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Tephrocyon hippophagus was named by Matthew and Cook (1909). Its type specimen is AMNH 13836, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Trojan Quarry, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Olcott Formation of Nebraska.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tomarctus brevirostris by Matthew (1924), VanderHoof and Gregory (1940) and Olsen (1956); it was recombined as Tomarctus hippophaga by Storer (1975), Skinner et al. (1977), Wang et al. (1999) and Wang et al. (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Tephrocyon hippophagus Matthew and Cook p. 373 fig. 4
1975Tomarctus hippophaga Storer
1977Tomarctus hippophaga Skinner et al.
1999Tomarctus hippophaga Wang et al.
2008Tomarctus hippophaga Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
subfamilyBorophaginae
tribeBorophaginiSimpson 1945
subtribeAelurodontina
genusTomarctus
specieshippophaga()

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.

Tomarctus hippophaga Matthew and Cook 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available