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Moeritherium
Taxonomy
Moeritherium was named by Andrews (1901). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Moeritheriidae.
It was assigned to Moeritherioidea by Osborn (1921); to Proboscidea by Mahboubi et al. (1984); and to Moeritheriidae by Andrews (1906), Abel (1919), Simpson (1945), Carroll (1988), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Delmer et al. (2006), Sanders et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Moeritherioidea by Osborn (1921); to Proboscidea by Mahboubi et al. (1984); and to Moeritheriidae by Andrews (1906), Abel (1919), Simpson (1945), Carroll (1988), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Delmer et al. (2006), Sanders et al. (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Moeritherium Andrews |
| 1906 | Moeritherium Andrews p. 99 |
| 1919 | Moeritherium Abel p. 828 |
| 1921 | Moeritherium Osborn p. 2 |
| 1945 | Moeritherium Simpson |
| 1955 | Moeritherium latidens Deraniyagala |
| 1955 | Moeritherium pharaonensis Deraniyagala |
| 1984 | Moeritherium Mahboubi et al. p. 543 |
| 1988 | Moeritherium Carroll |
| 1996 | Moeritherium Shoshani and Tassy p. 352 |
| 1997 | Moeritherium McKenna and Bell p. 498 |
| 2005 | Moeritherium Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
| 2006 | Moeritherium Delmer et al. p. 423 |
| 2010 | Moeritherium Sanders et al. p. 173 |
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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. †Moeritherium Andrews 1901
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†Moeritherium chehbeurameuri Delmer et al. 2006
†Moeritherium gracile Andrews 1902
†Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews 1901
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Invalid names: Moeritherium ancestrale Petronievics 1923 [synonym]
†Moeritherium trigonodon Andrews 1904
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Invalid names: Moeritherium andrewsi Schlosser 1911 [synonym]
Invalid names: Moeritherium latidens Deraniyagala 1955 [nomen dubium], Moeritherium pharaonensis Deraniyagala 1955 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 48.07000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | Senegal (Thies region) | M. sp. (36616) | |
| Lutetian | Mali | M. sp. (136910) | |
| Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya | M. lyonsi (48077) M. trigodon (55449) | |
| Bartonian - Priabonian | Algeria | M. chehbeurameuri (59733) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | Egypt | M. sp. (40516) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | M. lyonsi, M. gracile (79700) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt (Fayum) | M. lyonsi (74737 175910 181545 181547 181548 181549 181550 181551 181552 181553 181554 181555 181556 181557) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt (Fayum) | M. lyonsi, M. gracile, M. trigonodon (65960) |