Medistylus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hegetotheria

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Cladus: Pan-Euungulata Mirordo: Euungulata Cladus: Panperissodactyla Ordo: †Notoungulata Subordo: †Hegetotheria

Familia: †Hegetotheriidae
Subfamilia: †Pachyrukhinae
Genus: †Medistylus
Species (1): †M. dorsatus

Name

Medistylus Stirton, 1952 [nomen substitutum]

• Type species: Phanophilus dorsatus Ameghino, 1903, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Phanophilus Ameghino, 1903: 202 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Phanophilus Sharp, 1886]
  • Type species: Phanophilus dorsatus Ameghino, 1903, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Ameghino, F. 1903. Nuevas especies de mamíferos cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 56: 193–208. BHL Reference page. 
• Stirton, R.A. 1952. Medistylus, new name for Phanophilus Ameghino, not Sharp. Journal of Paleontology 26(3): 531.

Additional references

• Reguero, M.A., Dozo, M.T. & Cerdeño, E. 2007. A poorly known rodentlike mammal (Pachyrukhinae, Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Deseadan (Late Oligocene) of Argentina. Paleoecology, biogeography, and radiation of the rodentlike ungulates in South America. Journal of Paleontology 81(6): 1301–1307. DOI: 10.1666/05-100.1 JSTOR Reference page.