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Hoplophoneus occidentalis
Taxonomy
Machairodus occidentalis was named by Leidy (1866) ["Drepanodon occidentalis" used in same publication].
It was recombined as Drepanodon occidentalis by Scott and Jepsen (1936); it was recombined as Hoplophoneus occidentalis by Cope (1880), Adams (1896), Hay (1902), Simpson (1941), Bryant (1996) and Barrett (2016).
It was recombined as Drepanodon occidentalis by Scott and Jepsen (1936); it was recombined as Hoplophoneus occidentalis by Cope (1880), Adams (1896), Hay (1902), Simpson (1941), Bryant (1996) and Barrett (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Machairodus occidentalis Leidy |
| 1880 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Cope |
| 1895 | Dinotomius atrox Williston p. 170 figs. Pl. XVIII |
| 1896 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Adams |
| 1902 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Hay p. 778 |
| 1936 | Drepanodon occidentalis Scott and Jepsen |
| 1941 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Simpson |
| 1996 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Bryant |
| 2016 | Hoplophoneus occidentalis Barrett p. 55 |
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†Hoplophoneus occidentalis Leidy 1866
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Invalid names: Dinotomius atrox Williston 1895 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Z. Barrett 2016 | Characters of Hoplophoneus plus: sutural contact absent between the lacrimal and jugal; medial ridge of palate present; postglenoid foramen absent; posterior lip of the glenoid socket projects more ventrally than the anterior lip; oblique angle between the braincase, disregarding the sagittal crest, and axial plane of the cranium; anterior dentary position elevate above cheek tooth row; vertically orientated posterior border of coronoid process; deep genial flange between 32 and 50% of total dentary length; mesial-distal length of C1 less than that of P4; ratio of height between P3 and P4 0.50–0.70; p3 lower than p4; trigonid proportion of m1, 88% or greater. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Martin 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Van Valkenburgh 1988 | |||||