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Eotheroides aegyptiacum

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Eotherium aegyptiacum was named by Owen (1875). Its type specimen is BMNH 46722, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Halitherium aegyptiacum by von Zittel (1893); it was recombined as Eotheroides aegyptiacum by Palmer (1899), Trouessart (1904), Trouessart (1905), Domning (1994), Domning (1996) and Voss (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Eotherium aegyptiacum Owen p. 100
1878Manatus coulombi Filhol p. 124
1885Eotherium aegyptiacum Woodward p. 424
1885Manatus coulombi Woodward p. 424
1887Eotherium aegyptiacum Lydekker p. 13
1893Halitherium aegyptiacum von Zittel p. 198
1898Eotherium aegyptiacum Trouessart p. 1003
1898Eotherium coulombi Trouessart p. 1003
1899Eotheroides aegyptiacum Palmer
1904Eotherium aegyptiacum Abel p. 37
1904Eotheroides aegyptiacum Trouessart p. 749
1904Eotheroides coulombi Trouessart p. 749
1905Eotheroides aegyptiacum Trouessart p. 749
1905Manatus coulombi Trouessart p. 749
1913Eotherium aegyptiacum Abel p. 307
1938Eotherium majus Zdansky p. 434 fig. 1
1941Masrisiren abeli Kretzoi p. 152
1978Eotherium aegyptiacum Domning
1994Eotheroides aegyptiacum Domning p. 189
1996Eotheroides aegyptiacum Domning p. 383
1996Eotherium majus Domning p. 384
2014Eotheroides aegyptiacum 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()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
genusEotheroides
speciesaegyptiacum()

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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Invalid names: Eotherium majus Zdansky 1938 [synonym], Manatus coulombi Filhol 1878 [synonym], Masrisiren abeli Kretzoi 1941 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available