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Prosthennops ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835323	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835323
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42438	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42438

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Prosthennops

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Prosthennops

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
superfamily	Suoidea	Gray 1821
family	Tayassuidae	Palmer 1897
subfamily	Tayassuinae	Palmer 1897
genus	Prosthennops	Gidley 1904

Scientific Name

Prosthennops Gidley, 1904

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Dicotylidae	stated without evidence	Matthew and Gidley, 1904
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated with evidence	Wright, 1998
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Hulbert and Whitmore, 2006
Prosthennops	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated with evidence	Dutra et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 1.8 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore, omnivore (based on Tayassuidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. D. Matthew and J. W. Gidley. 1904. New or little known mammals from the Miocene of South Dakota : American Museum expedition of 1903. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20(22):241-268

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dicotyles serus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hesperopithecus haroldcookii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus condoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus rex ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus ziegleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Prosthennops kernensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Prosthennops niobrarensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Prosthennops xiphodonticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		24	23.0 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Prosthennops Matthew and Gidley p. 265
1922	Hesperopithecus Osborn
1988	Prosthennops Carroll
1997	Prosthennops McKenna and Bell p. 397
1998	Prosthennops Wright p. 395
2006	Prosthennops Hulbert and Whitmore p. 6
2017	Prosthennops Dutra et al. p. 353

References

Matthew W. D., Gidley J. W. (1904) New or little known mammals from the Miocene of South Dakota : American Museum expedition of 1903, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20 22, 241-268

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Wright D. B. (1998) Tayassuidae, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 389-401

Hulbert R. C., Whitmore F. C. (2006) Late Miocene mammals from the Mauvilla Local Fauna, Alabama, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 46 1, 1-28

Dutra R. P., Casali D. de M., et al (2017) Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24 3, 345-358 doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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