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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Ticholeptus : Ticholeptus zygomaticus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Ticholeptus : Ticholeptus zygomaticus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Ticholeptus |
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| Scientific Name | Ticholeptus zygomaticus (Cope, 1878) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | stated without evidence | Cope, 1878 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Merychyus | stated with evidence | Cope, 1884 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Merychyus | stated without evidence | Scott, 1890 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | stated with evidence | Douglass, 1906 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | stated without evidence | Douglass, 1907 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | stated with evidence | Schultz and Falkenbach, 1941 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | stated without evidence | Kelly and Lander, 1988 | | Ticholeptus zygomaticus | species | belongs to Ticholeptus | 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 | 23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 16.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene |
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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. D. Cope. 1878. Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):379-396 |
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| Cope E. D. Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4 2, 379-396 |
| Cope E. D. Synopsis of the species of Oreodontidae, Paleontological Bulletin 38, 503-572 |
| 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. (1903) New vertebrates from the Montana Tertiary, Annals of Carnegie Museum 2 5, 145-199 |
| Douglass E. (1907) New merycoidodonts from the Miocene of Montana, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23, 809-822 |
| Loomis F. B. (1920) On Ticholeptus rusticus and the genera of Oreodontiae, American Journal of Science 50 200, 281-292 |
| Thorpe M. R. (1937) The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals, Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3 4, 1-428 |
| Schultz C. B., Falkenbach C. H. (1941) Ticholeptinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79 1, 1-105 |
| Kelly T. S., Lander E. B. (1988) Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California, Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California, 1-19 |
| 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 |
Ticholeptus zygomaticus ✝
