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Saghatherium
Taxonomy
Saghatherium was named by Andrews and Beadnell (1902). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Pliohyracidae by Matsumoto (1926), Rasmussen and Simons (1988); to Procaviidae by Carroll (1988); to Saghatheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993); and to Saghatheriidae by Andrews (1906), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was assigned to Pliohyracidae by Matsumoto (1926), Rasmussen and Simons (1988); to Procaviidae by Carroll (1988); to Saghatheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993); and to Saghatheriidae by Andrews (1906), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1902 | Saghatherium Andrews and Beadnell p. 5 |
| 1906 | Saghatherium Andrews p. 84 |
| 1926 | Saghatherium Matsumoto |
| 1988 | Saghatherium Carroll |
| 1988 | Saghatherium Rasmussen and Simons p. 75 |
| 1989 | Saghatherium Prothero and Schoch p. 531 |
| 1993 | Saghatherium Court and Mahboubi p. 892 |
| 2010 | Saghatherium Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 131 |
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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. †Saghatherium Andrews and Beadnell 1902
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†Saghatherium annectens Matsumoto 1926
†Saghatherium antiquum Andrews and Beadnell 1902
†Saghatherium bowni Rasmussen and Simons 1991
†Saghatherium euryodon Matsumoto 1926
†Saghatherium humarum Rasmussen and Simons 1988
†Saghatherium macrodon Matsumoto 1926
†Saghatherium magnum Andrews 1904
†Saghatherium majus Andrews 1906
†Saghatherium minus Andrews and Beadnell 1902
†Saghatherium sobrina Matsumoto 1926
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 27.30000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt (Fayum) | S. magnum, S. antiquum, S. minus, S. majus (65960) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Libya | S. sp. (180110) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Oman (Dhofar) | S. bowni (175334) | |
| Rupelian | Egypt (Fayum) | S. bowni (60127) S. humarum (12950) |