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Turgidodon rhaister

Mammalia - Alphadontidae

Taxonomy
Alphadon rhaister was named by Clemens (1966). Its type specimen is UCMP V-50292, a set of teeth, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Quarry No. 2 (UCMP V-5815), which is in a Lancian terrestrial sandstone in the Lance Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Turgidodon rhaister by Cifelli (1990), Johanson (1996), Hunter (1997) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Alphadon rhaister Clemens
1979Alphadon rhaister Clemens p. 193
1990Turgidodon rhaister Cifelli
1996Turgidodon rhaister Johanson
1997Turgidodon rhaister Hunter
2004Turgidodon rhaister Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 443, 456

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
familyAlphadontidaeMarshall et al. 1990
genusTurgidodon
speciesrhaister()

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.

†Turgidodon rhaister Clemens 1966
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available