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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Limnenetes : Limnenetes platyceps |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Limnenetes : Limnenetes platyceps |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Limnenetes |
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| Scientific Name | Limnenetes platyceps (Douglass, 1902) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Limnenetes | stated with evidence | Douglass, 1902 | | Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Limnenetes | stated without evidence | Loomis, 1924 | | Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Limnenetes | stated with evidence | Scott, 1940 | | Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Leptauchenia | stated without evidence | Lander, 1998 | | Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Limnenetes | stated without evidence | Tabrum and Nichols, 2001 | | Limnenetes platyceps | species | belongs to Limnenetes | stated with 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 | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene |
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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) | E. Douglass. 1902. Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20:237-279 |
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| Douglass E. (1902) Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20, 237-279 |
| Loomis F. B. (1924) The Oreodonts of the Lower Oligocene, Annals of Carnegie Museum 15, 369-378 |
| Thorpe M. R. (1937) The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals, Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3 4, 1-428 |
| 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. (1956) Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109 4, 373-482 |
| Lander B. (1998) Oreodontoidea, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 402-425 |
| Tabrum A. R., Nichols R. (2001) Species named by Earl Douglass from the Tertiary intermontane basins of southwestern Montana, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3, 88-92 |
| Stevens M. S., Stevens J. B. (2007) Family Merycoidodontidae, The Evolution of Artiodactyls, 157-168 |
Limnenetes platyceps ✝
