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Behemota (disused)
Taxonomy
Behemota was named by McKenna and Bell (1997) [authorship is assigned to McKenna, Bell, and Shoshani]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Tethytheria by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Tethytheria by McKenna and Bell (1997).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Behemota McKenna and Bell p. 375 |
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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.
Infraor. Behemota McKenna and Bell 1997
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell 1997 | Most recent common ancestor of Desmostylia and Proboscidea. |
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available