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Kronokotherium brevimaxillare

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Taxonomy
Kronokotherium brevimaxillare was named by Pronina (1957). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Raktinskaya, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Kronokotherium.

It was synonymized subjectively with Desmostylus hesperus by Domning (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Kronokotherium brevimaxillare Pronina p. 312
1966Kronotherium brevimaxillare Shikama p. 166
2008Kronokotherium brevimaxillare Domning p. 643

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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()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
orderDesmostylia
genusKronokotherium
speciesbrevimaxillare

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
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