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Melanodon oweni

Mammalia - Groeberida - Nototheriidae

Taxonomy
Melanodon oweni was named by Simpson (1927). Its type specimen is YPM 10663, a maxilla (part of right maxilla with P4 and M1-5), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Melanodon.

It was recombined as Laolestes oweni by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Melanodon oweni Simpson p. 414
1929Melanodon oweni Simpson pp. 75-76
1930Melanodon oweni Hay p. 374
1979Melanodon oweni Kraus p. 164
1981Melanodon oweni Prothero p. 290
2004Laolestes oweni Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 385

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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
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Marsupialia()
Didelphia
AmeridelphiaSzalay 1982
AustralidelphiaSzalay 1982
orderGroeberidaPascual et al. 1994
Herpetotheriidae(Trouessart 1879)
orderMarsupicarnivoraRide 1964
familyNototheriidae
familyNumbigilgidae
familyOdontomysopidae
orderPaucituberculataAmeghino 1894
Peradectidae(Crochet 1979)
superorderDryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
familyDryolestidaeMarsh 1879
genusMelanodon
speciesoweni

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.

Melanodon oweni Simpson 1927
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available