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Metaxytherium lovisati

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Metaxytherium lovisati was named by Capellini (1886). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Monte Fiocca, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in the Mores Formation of Italy.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. subappeninum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1886Metaxytherium lovisati Capellini p. 50
1898Metaxytherium lovisati Trouessart p. 1005
1904Metaxytherium lovisatoi Abel p. 14
1904Metaxitherium lovisati Trouessart p. 750
1974Metaxytherium lovisati Fondi and Pacini p. 45
1996Metaxytherium lovisati Domning p. 386

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
subfamilyHalitheriinae()
genusMetaxytherium
specieslovisati

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.

†Metaxytherium lovisati Capellini 1886
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available