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Breviodon

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Taxonomy
Breviodon was named by Radinsky (1965). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Lophialetidae by Carroll (1988); and to Ceratomorpha by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

Species
B. lumeiyiensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
B. minutus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Breviodon Radinsky
1988Breviodon Carroll
1989Breviodon Prothero and Schoch p. 533

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
genusBreviodonRadinsky 1965

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. †Breviodon Radinsky 1965
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†Breviodon lumeiyiensis Huang and Qi 1982
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: browsersubo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 15:03:12
Modified: 2005-08-31 17:03:12
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Colbert and Schoch 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 55.80000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (14 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Irdinmanhan56.0 - 37.71Mongolia B. sp. (182485)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9China (shaanxi) B. minutus (42686)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6China (Inner Mongolia) B. minutus (195165)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Shandong) B. minutus (175281)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Nei Mongol) B. sp., B. minutus (28792)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Henan) B. minutus (46193)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Mongolia B. minutus (75718 174909)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Kazakhstan B. sp. (180518)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Yunnan) B. lumeiyiensis (174964)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Xinjiang) B. minutus (176333)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene47.8 - 33.9China (Nei Mongol) B. minutus (180873)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0China (Henan) B. minutus (177036)
Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene37.2 - 28.4China (Henan) B. minutus (174738)