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Triplopus rhinocerinus

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae

Taxonomy
Eotrigonias rhinocerinus was named by Wood (1927) [genotype]. Its type locality is Lake Fork, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Uinta Formation of Utah.

It was recombined as Triplopus rhinocerinus by Radinsky (1967), Wilson and Stevens (1986), Hanson (1989), Prothero (1998) and Lofgren et al. (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Eotrigonias rhinocerinus Wood
1929Eotrigonias rhinocerinus Wood p. 63
1967Triplopus rhinocerinus Radinsky
1986Triplopus rhinocerinus Wilson and Stevens
1989Triplopus rhinocerinus Hanson
1998Triplopus rhinocerinus Prothero p. 591
2020Triplopus rhinocerinus Lofgren 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
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyHyracodontidaeCope 1879
genusTriplopus
speciesrhinocerinus()

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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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available