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Acrocyon riggsi

Mammalia - Sparassodonta

Taxonomy
Borhyaena riggsi was named by Sinclair (1930). Its type locality is Gran Barranca, which is in an Eocene/Miocene terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

It was recombined as Acrocyon riggsi by Marshall (1978) and Goin et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Acrocyon riggsi Marshall
2007Acrocyon riggsi Goin 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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
orderSparassodonta()
superfamilyBorhyaenoideaAmeghino 1894
—Borhyaenidae()
subfamilyBorhyaeninaeAmeghino 1894
genusAcrocyonAmeghino 1887
speciesriggsi(Sinclair 1930)

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.

†Acrocyon riggsi Sinclair 1930
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available