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Desmathyus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835328	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835328
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42426	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42426

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Desmathyus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Desmathyus

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	Hesperhyinae	Prothero 2015
genus	Desmathyus	Matthew 1907

Scientific Name

Desmathyus Matthew, 1907

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus., 23

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Desmathyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1907
Desmathyus	genus	subjective synonym of Hesperhys	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1945
Desmathyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Morea, 1981
Desmathyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Desmathyus	genus	subjective synonym of Hesperhys	stated with evidence	Wright, 1998
Desmathyus	genus	belongs to Hesperhyinae	stated with evidence	Prothero, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

7.25 - 5.33 Ma
Miocene

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. 1907. A Lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23(9):169-219

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Desmathyus pinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	24.8 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1907	Desmathyus Matthew
1981	Desmathyus Morea
1988	Desmathyus Carroll
2015	Desmathyus Prothero p. 241 figs. 9 - 11

References

Matthew W. D. (1907) A Lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23 9, 169-219

Morea M. F. (1981) The Massacre Lake local fauna (Mammalia, Hemingfordian) from northwestern Washoe County, Nevada, Ph. D. thesis UC Riverside, 247

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

Prothero D. R. (2015) Evolution of the Early Miocene Hesperhyine Peccaries, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 67, 235-255

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

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

original work (title/other) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus., 23 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GBIF/Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database - 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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