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Ellipsodon
Taxonomy
Ellipsodon was named by Scott (1892).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mioclaenus by Matthew (1897).
It was assigned to Oxyclaenidae by Scott (1892) and Hay (1902); to Mioclaenidae by Simpson (1937), Matthew (1937), McKenna and Bell (1997), Archibald (1998) and Williamson and Carr (2007); and to Mioclaeninae by Zack et al. (2005) and Halliday et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mioclaenus by Matthew (1897).
It was assigned to Oxyclaenidae by Scott (1892) and Hay (1902); to Mioclaenidae by Simpson (1937), Matthew (1937), McKenna and Bell (1997), Archibald (1998) and Williamson and Carr (2007); and to Mioclaeninae by Zack et al. (2005) and Halliday et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1892 | Ellipsodon Scott p. 298 |
| 1902 | Ellipsodon Hay p. 746 |
| 1937 | Ellipsodon Matthew |
| 1937 | Ellipsodon Simpson |
| 1997 | Ellipsodon McKenna and Bell |
| 1998 | Ellipsodon Archibald |
| 2005 | Ellipsodon Zack et al. |
| 2007 | Ellipsodon Williamson and Carr |
| 2017 | Ellipsodon Halliday et al. p. 525 |
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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. †Ellipsodon Scott 1892
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†Ellipsodon inaequidens Cope 1884
†Ellipsodon sternbergi Gazin 1939
†Ellipsodon yotankae Van Valen 1978
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Archibald 1998 | |||||
Age range: base of the Torrejonian to the top of the Puercan or 63.80000 to 63.30000 Ma
Collections (24 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Puercan | USA (Utah) | E. sp. b (14790) | |
| Puercan | USA (New Mexico) | E. grangeri (14662) | |
| Puercan - Torrejonian | USA (New Mexico) | E. grangeri (193958) E. yotankae (193959 193960 193961 193962 193963 193964 193965 193966) | |
| Torrejonian | USA (New Mexico) | E. grangeri (14811 14832 14834 14867 14873) E. inaequidens (14824 193954 193955 193956 193957) E. yotankae, E. sp. (14816) Tricentes inaequidens (14836) | |
| Torrejonian | USA (Utah) | E. grangeri, E. sternbergi (14830) |