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Bunophorus etsagicus

Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

Taxonomy
Mioclaenus etsagicus was named by Cope (1882). Its type specimen is AMNH 4698, a set of teeth (LP3-M3, RP3-M3), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Pantolestes etsagicus by Cope (1883); it was recombined as Systemodon etsagicus by Cope (1884) and Granger (1908); it was recombined as Trigonolestes etsagicus by Roger (1896), Matthew (1899) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Eohyus etsagicus by Wortman (1898); it was recombined as Eohippus etsagicus by Granger (1908), Hay (1930) and Stirton (1940); it was recombined as Helohyus etsagicus by Matthew (1909); it was recombined as Hyracotherium etsagicus by Denison (1937); it was synonymized subjectively with Hyracotherium angustidens by Kitts (1956); it was recombined as Bunophorus etsagicus by Sinclair (1914), Gazin (1962), Guthrie (1967), Gingerich (1980), Stucky and Krishtalka (1990), Stucky (1998) and Theodor et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Mioclaenus etsagicus Cope pp. 188-190
1883Pantolestes etsagicus Cope
1884Systemodon etsagicus Cope
1896Trigonolestes etsagicus Roger
1898Eohyus etsagicus Wortman
1899Trigonolestes etsagicus Matthew
1902Trigonolestes etsagicus Hay p. 649
1908Eohippus etsagicus Granger
1908Systemodon etsagicus Granger
1909Helohyus etsagicus Matthew
1914Bunophorus etsagicus Sinclair
1930Eohippus etsagicus Hay
1937Hyracotherium etsagicus Denison
1940Eohippus etsagicus Stirton
1962Bunophorus etsagicus Gazin
1967Bunophorus etsagicus Guthrie
1980Bunophorus etsagicus Gingerich
1990Bunophorus etsagicus Stucky and Krishtalka p. 151 fig. 1
1998Bunophorus etsagicus Stucky
2007Bunophorus etsagicus Theodor et al. p. 40

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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
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
familyDiacodexeidae
genusBunophorus
speciesetsagicus()

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.

†Bunophorus etsagicus Cope 1882
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. K. Stucky and L. Krishtalka 1990Differs from B. robustus, B. grangeri and B. pattersoni in having a vestigial to absent M1_3 paraconid, and in lacking a paraconid on P4; unlike B. macropternus, P4 not as hyperinflated in proportion to and M3 without labial cingulid; unlike B. sinclairi and B. pattersoni, P4 more inflated (and anteriorly bulbous) in proportion to M1; unlike B. sinclairi, P4 lacking metaconid, M1_3 with stronger, uninterrupted cristid obliqua, and P c M 3 less bunodont, with trigonid higher than talonid; larger than B. robustus, B. macropternus and B. pattersoni.