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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon chelonyx |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon chelonyx |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Mesoreodon |
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| Scientific Name | Mesoreodon chelonyx Scott, 1893 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | belongs to Mesoreodon | stated without evidence | Scott, 1893 | | Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | belongs to Mesoreodon | stated with evidence | Douglass, 1906 | | Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | belongs to Mesoreodon | stated without evidence | Thorpe, 1937 | | Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | belongs to Mesoreodon | stated with evidence | Schultz and Falkenbach, 1949 | | Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | subjective synonym of Eporeodon major | stated without evidence | Lander, 1998 | | Mesoreodon chelonyx | species | belongs to Mesoreodon | stated without evidence | Stevens and Stevens, 2007 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 33.3 - 30.8 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 30.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Merycoidodontidae) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | W. B. Scott. 1893. The Mammals of the Deep River Beds. The American Naturalist 27(319):659-662 |
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| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Mesoreodon danai Koerner, 1940 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon danai |
| Desmatochoerus sanfordi Schultz & Falkenbach, 1954 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Desmatochoerus sanfordi |
| Mesoreodon intermedius Scott, 1893 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon intermedius |
| Mesoreodon laticeps Loomis, 1924 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon laticeps |
| Eucrotaphus montanus (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Eucrotaphus montanus |
| Mesoreodon latidens (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon latidens |
| Eporeodon meagherensis (Schultz & Falkenbach, 1968) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Eporeodon meagherensis |
| Mesoreodon wheeleri Koerner, 1940 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Mesoreodon wheeleri |
| Merycoides latidens (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Merycoides latidens |
| Eporeodon latidens (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Eporeodon latidens |
| Paramerycoidodon meagherensis (Schultz & Falkenbach, 1968) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Paramerycoidodon meagherensis |
| Subdesmatochoerus montanus (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Subdesmatochoerus montanus |
| Eporeodon montanus (Douglass, 1907) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Mesoreodon : Eporeodon montanus |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1893 | Mesoreodon chelonyx Scott p. 661 |
| 1893 | Mesoreodon intermedius Scott p. 661 |
| 1902 | Mesoreodon chelonyx Hay p. 667 |
| 1902 | Mesoreodon intermedius Hay p. 667 |
| 1906 | Mesoreodon chelonyx Douglass p. 566 |
| 1907 | Eucrotaphus montanus Douglass p. 100 |
| 1907 | Mesoreodon latidens Douglass p. 101 figs. Pl. 25 |
| 1924 | Merycoides latidens Loomis |
| 1924 | Mesoreodon laticeps Loomis |
| 1924 | Eporeodon montanus Thorpe |
| 1934 | Merycoides latidens Schlaikjer |
| 1937 | Eporeodon montanus Thorpe p. 80 figs. Fig. 40 ; PL IX, figs. 1-3 |
| 1937 | Mesoreodon chelonyx Thorpe p. 98 figs. Fig. 65 PL IX, fig. 4; PI. XI, figs. 1-2 |
| Scott W. B. The Mammals of the Deep River Beds, The American Naturalist 27 319, 659-662 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Douglass E. (1907) Some new merycoidodonts, Annals of Carnegie Museum 4, 99-109 |
| Loomis F. B. (1924) Miocene oreodonts in the American Museum, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 51 1, 1-37 |
| Thorpe M. R. (1937) The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals, Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3 4, 1-428 |
| Koerner H. E. (1940) New vertebrates Part 1 of The geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Fort Logan and Deep River formations of Montana, American Journal of Science 238 12, 837-862 doi:10.2475/ajs.238.12.837 |
| Scott W. B. (1940) The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene; Part 4, Artiodactyla; Part 5, Perissodactyla, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28 4, 363-746 |
| Schultz C. B., Falkenbach C. H. (1949) Promerycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93 3, 69-198 |
| Schultz C. B., Falkenbach C. H. (1954) Desmatochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105 2 |
| Schultz C. B., Falkenbach C. H. (1968) The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139, 1-498 |
| Stevens M. S., Stevens J. B. (1996) Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae, The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, 498-573 |
| Lander B. (1998) Oreodontoidea, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 402-425 |
| Stevens M. S., Stevens J. B. (2007) Family Merycoidodontidae, The Evolution of Artiodactyls, 157-168 |
Mesoreodon chelonyx ✝
