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Merycopotamus
Taxonomy
Merycopotamus was named by Falconer and Cautley (1847). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Ruminantia by Owen (1848); to Anthracotheriidae by Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Bothriodontinae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010); and to Hippopotamoidea by Orliac et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Ruminantia by Owen (1848); to Anthracotheriidae by Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Bothriodontinae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010); and to Hippopotamoidea by Orliac et al. (2010).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by L. van den Hoek Ostende on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1847 | Merycopotamus Falconer and Cautley |
| 1848 | Merycopotamus Owen p. 139 |
| 1988 | Merycopotamus Carroll |
| 1997 | Merycopotamus McKenna and Bell p. 406 |
| 2005 | Merycopotamus Boisserie et al. |
| 2010 | Merycopotamus Boisserie et al. p. 329 |
| 2010 | Merycopotamus Orliac et al. p. 11872 figs. Fig. 2 |
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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. †Merycopotamus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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†Merycopotamus dissimilis Falconer and Cautley 1847
†Merycopotamus medioximus Lihoreau et al. 2004
†Merycopotamus pusillus Lydekker 1885
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Kron and Manning 1998, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Tortonian or 11.63000 to 7.24600 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Tunisia (Gafsa) | M. anisae (35277 35279) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Tunisia | M. dissimilus (35274) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima) | M. thachangensis (144187) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Thailand (Nakorn Ratchasima) | M. medioximus (67172) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Pakistan (Punjab) | M. dissimilis (13473 13474) M. medioximus (230458) |