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Spalacotherium
Taxonomy
Spalacotherium was named by Owen (1854).
It was assigned to Insectivora by Owen (1854); to Mammalia by Owen (1859); to Marsupialia by Owen (1871); to Spalacotheriida by Prothero (1981); to Trechnotheria by Wang et al. (1998); and to Spalacotheriidae by Marsh (1887), Lydekker (1894), Simpson (1925), Simpson (1928), Simpson (1929), Clemens (1963), Clemens and Lees (1971), Cassiliano and Clemens (1979), Averianov (2002), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004), Li and Luo (2006) and Han and Meng (2016).
It was assigned to Insectivora by Owen (1854); to Mammalia by Owen (1859); to Marsupialia by Owen (1871); to Spalacotheriida by Prothero (1981); to Trechnotheria by Wang et al. (1998); and to Spalacotheriidae by Marsh (1887), Lydekker (1894), Simpson (1925), Simpson (1928), Simpson (1929), Clemens (1963), Clemens and Lees (1971), Cassiliano and Clemens (1979), Averianov (2002), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004), Li and Luo (2006) and Han and Meng (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1854 | Spalacotherium Owen p. 426 figs. 9-12 |
| 1859 | Spalacotherium Owen p. 160 |
| 1871 | Spalacotherium Owen pp. 18, 115 |
| 1887 | Spalacotherium Marsh p. 340 |
| 1894 | Spalacotherium Lydekker p. 275 |
| 1925 | Spalacotherium Simpson p. 569 |
| 1928 | Spalacotherium Simpson p. 98 |
| 1929 | Spalacotherium Simpson p. 38 |
| 1963 | Spalacotherium Clemens |
| 1971 | Spalacotherium Clemens and Lees p. 124 |
| 1979 | Spalacotherium Cassiliano and Clemens p. 151 |
| 1981 | Spalacotherium Prothero p. 320 |
| 1998 | Spalacotherium Wang et al. |
| 2002 | Spalacotherium Averianov p. 714 |
| 2004 | Spalacotherium Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 345, 367-368 figs. 9.1C, 9.10A |
| 2006 | Spalacotherium Li and Luo p. 197 |
| 2016 | Spalacotherium Han and Meng |
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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.
G. †Spalacotherium Owen 1854
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†Spalacotherium evansae Ensom and Sigogneau-Russell 2000
†Spalacotherium henkeli Krebs 1985
†Spalacotherium hookeri Gill 2004
†Spalacotherium taylori Clemens and Lees 1971
†Spalacotherium tricuspidens Owen 1854
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Invalid names: Peralestes longirostris Owen 1871 [synonym]
†Spalacotherium tricuspis Owen 1854
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hopson 1973, Luo et al. 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Berriasian to the top of the Early/Lower Barremian or 145.00000 to 125.45000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | S. tricuspidens (105966) | |
| Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | S. evansae (28995) S. evansae, S. sp. (28401) | |
| Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian | France (Poitou-Charentes) | S. evansae (61930) | |
| Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | S. evansae (122769) S. hookeri (123573) S. tricuspidens, Peralestes longirostris (72142) | |
| Berriasian | France (Poitou-Charentes) | S. evansae (142093) | |
| Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | S. sp. (77058) | |
| Early/Lower Valanginian | United Kingdom (England) | S. tricuspidens (102993) | |
| Late/Upper Valanginian | United Kingdom (England) | S. tricuspidens (119006) | |
| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain (Teruel) | S. henkeli (36365) |