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Moeritherium lyonsi

Description

Moeritherium ("the beast from Lake Moeris") is an extinct genus of primitive proboscideans. These prehistoric mammals are related to the elephant and, more distantly, sea cows and hyraxes. They lived during the Eocene epoch.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4968896https://www.gbif.org/species/4968896
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)86190https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86190
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Proboscidea : Moeritheriidae : Moeritherium : Moeritherium lyonsi
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Proboscidea : Moeritheriidae : Moeritherium : Moeritherium lyonsi
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
subclassTribosphenida
infraclassEutheria
-PlacentaliaOwen 1837
-AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
-TethytheriaMcKenna 1975
orderProboscidea
suborderMoeritherioidea
familyMoeritheriidaeAndrews 1906
genusMoeritheriumAndrews 1901
speciesMoeritherium lyonsiAndrews 1901
Generic NameMoeritherium
Scientific NameMoeritherium lyonsi Andrews, 1901
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated without evidenceAndrews, 1901
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated with evidenceAndrews, 1903
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated without evidenceAndrews, 1906
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated with evidenceTobien, 1978
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated without evidenceShoshani and Tassy, 1996
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated with evidenceDelmer et al., 2006
Moeritherium lyonsispeciesbelongs to Moeritheriumstated without evidenceSanders et al., 2010
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance41.3 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Last Recorded Appearance33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Eutheria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietgrazer, browser (based on Proboscidea)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeritherium_lyonsi

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Moeritherium ancestrale Petronievics, 1923GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Proboscidea : Moeritheriidae : Moeritherium : Moeritherium ancestrale

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1901Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews pp. P. 528
1903Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews p. 113
1906Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews p. 120
1923Moeritherium ancestrale Petronievics
1978Moeritherium lyonsi Tobien
1996Moeritherium lyonsi Shoshani and Tassy p. 355 figs. Appendix C.1
2006Moeritherium lyonsi Delmer et al. p. 424
2010Moeritherium lyonsi Sanders et al. p. 174

References

Andrews C. W. (1906) , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt, 1-324
Andrews C. W. (1903) On the evolution of the Proboscidea, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character 196, 99-118
Shoshani J., Tassy P. (1996) Summary, conclusions, and a glimpse into the future, in J. Shoshani and P. Tassy, eds., The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their Relatives, 335-348
Delmer C., Mahboubi M., et al (2006) A new species of Moeritherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Algeria: New perspectives on the ancestral morphotype of the genus, Palaeontology 49 2, 421-434
Sanders W. J., Gheerbrant E., et al (2010) Proboscidea, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 161-251
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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