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Rhytinidae (disused)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Rhytinidae

Taxonomy
Rhytinidae was named by Gill (1872). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Hydrodamalidae by Hay (1902).

It was assigned to Halicoroidea by Gill (1872); to Sirenia by Cope (1890); to Sirenii by Jaekel (1911); and to Sirenia by Lydekker (1887), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Turner (1912) and Weber (1928).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Rhytinidae Gill p. 91
1887Rhytinidae Lydekker p. 13
1889Rhytinidae Cope p. 876
1890Rhytinidae Cope p. 698
1891Rhytinidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89
1911Rhytinidae Jaekel p. 245
1912Rhytinidae Turner p. 158
1928Rhytinidae Weber p. 495

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

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.

Fm. Rhytinidae Gill 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available