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Monotherium delognii

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Monotherium delognii was named by Vanden Broeck (1874) [No type specimen number listed by Van Beneden (1876).]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sablesmoyens d'Anvers, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal sandstone in the Diest Formation of Belgium.

It was recombined as Monatherium delognii by Trouessart (1898) and Friant (1947); it was misspelled as Monatherium delognei by Trouessart (1904), Kellogg (1922), Ray (1976), Koretsky (2001) and Koretsky and Domning (2014); it was considered a nomen dubium by Berta et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Monatherium delognii Vanden Broeck p. 199
1874Monotherium delognii Vanden Broeck p. 199
1876Monotherium delognii Van Beneden p. 800
1898Monatherium delognii Trouessart p. 380
1904Monatherium delognei Trouessart p. 283
1922Monotherium delognii Kellogg p. 112
1947Monatherium delognii Friant p. 5
1976Monotherium delognii Ray p. 394
2001Monotherium delognii Koretsky p. 86
2014Monotherium delognii Koretsky and Domning p. 227
2018Monotherium delognii Dewaele et al. p. 22
2022Monotherium delognii Berta et al. p. 7 figs. Table 1.1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
Pinnipedia()
superfamilyPhocoideaSmirnov 1908
familyPhocidae()
genusMonotherium
speciesdelognii

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.

Monotherium delognii Vanden Broeck 1874
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available