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Taxon: Superfamily †Mylodontoidea Gill, 1872 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Pilosa

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Mylodonta (Clade) McKenna & Bell 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93 (note 1).

Original position

†Mylodonta (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93.

Original entries

†*Mylodontidae* (Family) Gill, 1872		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 94.
†*Pseudoprepotherium* (Genus) Hoffstetter, 1961		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93.
†*Scelidotheriidae* (Family) Ameghino, 1889		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93.

Current position

†Mylodonta (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93. [new rank]

Alternative positions

Pilosa (Infraorder) Flower, 1883

Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 648.

Historical positions

†*Mylodonta* (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 93. [new rank]
*Pilosa* (Infraorder) Flower, 1883	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 648.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†2f;24g;1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[; †2f;24g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[; †2f;24g]
1988	R.L. Carroll: 648	[; †2f]

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