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Taxon: Family †Spalacotheriidae Marsh, 1887 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Trechnotheria (Clade) McKenna 1975 Ref: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004: table 1.1 (p. 14).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Cladotheria (Clade) McKenna 1975 Ref: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004: 371.

Subsequent positions

Spalacotherioidea (Order) Prothero, 1981

Original entries

Questionably Microderson (Genus) Sigogneau-Russell, 1991
Questionably Spalacotheridium (Genus) Cifelli, 1990
Questionably Spalacotheroides (Genus) Patterson, 1955
Questionably Symmetrodontoides (Genus) Fox, 1976

Subsequent entries

Spalacotheriinae (Subfamily) Marsh, 1887 Ref: Cifelli & Madsen, 1999: 180.
Spalacotherium (Genus) Owen, 1854 Ref: 1887 [assumed]

Current position

Spalacotheriida (Order) Prothero, 1981 Ref: A.O. Averianov & A.V. Lopatin, 2011: fig. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Spalacotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1887 Ref: Sweetman, 2008: 1370
Spalacotherioidea (Order) Prothero, 1981 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 45.
Symmetrodonta (Order) Simpson, 1925 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 627.
Trechnotheria (Clade) McKenna 1975 Ref: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004 (alt.): table 1.1 (p. 14).

Historical positions

Alethinotheria (Clade) Averianov, Martin & Lopatin 2013 Ref: A.O. Averianov et al., 2013: 321, fig. 2.
Spalacotheriida (Order) Prothero, 1981 Ref: A.O. Averianov & A.V. Lopatin, 2011: fig. [implicit]
Trechnotheria (Clade) McKenna 1975 Ref: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004 (alt.): tables 1.1 (p. 14), 9.1 (p. 344).
Trechnotheria (Superlegion) McKenna, 1975 Ref: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004: table 9.2 (p. 345).
Spalacotherioidea (Order) Prothero, 1981 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 45.
Symmetrodonta (Order) Simpson, 1925 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 627.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †10g;14s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 23 Mar 2022 [; †10g]
2004 (alt.) Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al.: table 9.1 (p. 344) [; †7g]
2004 Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al.: table 9.2 (p. 345) [; †7g;14s]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [; †5g]
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