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Monotypic taxon: Suborder Tylopoda "Illiger, 1811" (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848

Original entries

Questionably Cameloidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Xiphodontidae (Family) Flower, 1884

Subsequent entries

Protoceratoidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1891 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 417.

Current position

Cetartiodactyla (Order) Montgelard, Catzeflis & Douzery, 1997 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27); Upham et al., 2019: Data S3.

Alternative positions

Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 412.

Historical positions

Cetartiodactyla (Order) Montgelard, Catzeflis & Douzery, 1997 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 412.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 304.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 640).
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1059.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 1f;3g;4s;5ss; †8f;129g;11s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 30 Apr 2021 [1f;3g;4s;5ss; †8f;130g]
2020 C.J. Burgin et al.: table 2 (p. 27) [1f]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [1f;3g; †3f;63g]
1988 R.L. Carroll: 641 [1f; †8f]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 1f;2g;[4s];(5ss)
1945 G.G. Simpson: [1f]
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