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Eotheria (disused)

Mammalia

Taxonomy
Eotheria was named by Kermack and Mussett (1958).

It was reranked as the subclass Eotheria by McKenna (1975); it was reranked as the infraclass Eotheria by Jenkins and Crompton (1979).

It was assigned to Mammalia by Bonaparte (1986); and to Prototheria by McKenna (1975), Jenkins and Crompton (1979) and Zhou et al. (1991).

Subtaxa
Triconodonta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Eotheria Kermack and Mussett
1975Eotheria McKenna p. 40
1979Eotheria Jenkins and Crompton p. 75
1986Eotheria Bonaparte p. 57
1991Eotheria Zhou et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
subclassEotheriaKermack and Mussett 1958
subclassEotheriaKermack and Mussett 1958

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.

Subcl. †Eotheria Kermack and Mussett 1958
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Or. †Triconodonta Osborn 1888 [triconodont]
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Invalid names: Amphidontoidea Prothero 1981 [empty], Gobiconodonta Averianov and Lopatin 2011 [empty], Phascolotheria Ameghino 1889 [empty], Sinoconodontidae Mills 1971 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973

Age range: base of the Toarcian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 182.70000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Toarcian - Aalenian182.7 - 170.3India (Andhra Pradesh) Triconodonta indet. (39673)
Late/Upper Bathonian167.7 - 164.7United Kingdom (England) Triconodonta indet. (57124 57139)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Utah) Triconodonta indet. (220417)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Triconodonta indet. (39430 49636)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Portugal (Centro) Triconodonta indet. (49304 69708)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Triconodonta indet. (53021)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Triconodonta indet. (58811)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Triconodonta indet. (71476)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mongolia (Omnogov) Triconodonta indet. (168991)