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Amblotherium soricinum

Mammalia - Groeberida - Nototheriidae

Taxonomy
Amblotherium soricinum was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BM(NH) 47752, a mandible (right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Amblotherium.

It was synonymized subjectively with Amblotherium pusillum by Simpson (1928).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Amblotherium soricinum Owen
1929Amblotherium soricinum Simpson p. 66
1930Amblotherium soricinum Hay p. 373
2004Amblotherium soricinum Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 382-383

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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
genusAmblotherium
speciessoricinum

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
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialf
Diet: omnivoref
Created: 2011-04-28 22:06:26
Modified: 2011-04-28 07:06:26
Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Horovitz et al. 2009

Age range: Middle Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Amblotherium soricinum (type locality: 72142)