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Metaxytherium serresii

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Halitherium serresii was named by Gervais (1847). Its type specimen is none designated and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Felsinotherium serresii by de Zigno (1878) and Depéret (1914); it was recombined as Metaxytherium serresi by Abel (1904), Zittel (1925) and Fondi and Pacini (1974); it was recombined as Metaxytherium serresii by Trouessart (1898), Pilleri (1988), Domning (1994), Domning (1996) and Voss (2014).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. subappeninum

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Halitherium serresii Gervais p. 221
1853Halitherium serresi Bronn p. 788
1878Felsinotherium serresii de Zigno p. 221
1883Halitherium minor Cope p. 52
1885Halitherium serresii Woodward p. 425
1895Metaxytherium serresi Deperet p. 409
1898Metaxytherium serresii Trouessart p. 1005
1904Metaxytherium serresi Abel p. 14
1914Felsinotherium serresii Depéret p. 1858
1925Metaxytherium serresi Zittel p. 265
1974Metaxytherium serresi Fondi and Pacini p. 45
1988Metaxytherium serresii Pilleri p. 111
1994Metaxytherium serresii Domning p. 189
1996Metaxytherium serresii Domning p. 387
2014Metaxytherium serresii Voss p. 91 figs. Figure 3

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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
speciesserresii()

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 serresii Gervais 1847
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Invalid names: Halitherium minor Cope 1883 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available