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Purgatorius
Taxonomy
Purgatorius was named by Van Valen and Sloan (1965). It is not extant. Its type is Purgatorius unio.
It was assigned to Purgatoriinae by Van Valen and Sloan (1965); to Paromomyidae by Clemens (1974); to Purgatoriini by Szalay and Delson (1979); to Plesiadapiformes by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Eutheria by Wible et al. (2007); to Primates by Bloch et al. (2007) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Purgatoriidae by Gunnell (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fox and Scott (2011) and Wilson Mantilla et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Purgatoriinae by Van Valen and Sloan (1965); to Paromomyidae by Clemens (1974); to Purgatoriini by Szalay and Delson (1979); to Plesiadapiformes by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Eutheria by Wible et al. (2007); to Primates by Bloch et al. (2007) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Purgatoriidae by Gunnell (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fox and Scott (2011) and Wilson Mantilla et al. (2021).
Species
P. ceratops, P. coracis, P. janisae, P. mckeeveri, P. pinecreeensis, P. titusi, P. unio (type species)
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Purgatorius Van Valen and Sloan p. 743 |
| 1965 | Purgatorius ceratops Van Valen and Sloan p. 744 |
| 1974 | Purgatorius Clemens p. 903 |
| 1974 | Purgatorius ceratops Clemens p. 903 |
| 1979 | Purgatorius Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 223 |
| 1979 | Purgatorius ceratops Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 223 |
| 1979 | Purgatorius Szalay and Delson |
| 1989 | Purgatorius Gunnell p. 11 |
| 1994 | Purgatorius ceratops Van Valen |
| 1997 | Purgatorius McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Purgatorius Bloch et al. p. 1162 |
| 2007 | Purgatorius Wible et al. |
| 2010 | Purgatorius Silcox et al. |
| 2011 | Purgatorius Fox and Scott |
| 2021 | Purgatorius Wilson Mantilla et al. |
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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. †Purgatorius Van Valen and Sloan 1965
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†Purgatorius coracis Fox and Scott 2011
†Purgatorius janisae Van Valen 1994
†Purgatorius mckeeveri Wilson Mantilla et al. 2021
†Purgatorius pinecreeensis Scott et al. 2016
†Purgatorius titusi Buckley 1997
†Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan 1965
Invalid names: Purgatorius ceratops Van Valen and Sloan 1965 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pu1 | USA (Montana) | P. janisae, P. mckeeveri (14762) | |
| Pu3 | USA (Montana) | P. mckeeveri (218647) P. mckeeveri, P. unio (14738) | |
| Puercan | Canada (Saskatchewan) | P. sp. (14768) | |
| Puercan | USA (Montana) | P. ceratops (14741) P. coracis (193844) P. sp. (14809) P. unio (14766) | |
| Danian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | P. pinecreeensis (14764) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (Montana) | P. sp. (15048) |