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Taxon: Superfamily Rhinocerotoidea Gray, 1825 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Tapiromorpha (Infraorder) Haeckel, 1866 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 478.

Original entries

Questionably †Hyracodontidae (Family) Cope, 1879
Questionably †Meschotherium (Genus) Gabunia, 1964

Subsequent entries

Rhinocerotidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Current position

Tapiromorpha (Infraorder) Haeckel, 1866 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 478. [new position]

Alternative positions

Ceratomorpha (Infraorder) Wood, 1937 Ref: A.O. Averianov & M. Godinot, 2005: 228.
Ceratomorpha (Suborder) Wood, 1937 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 645.

Historical positions

Tapiromorpha (Infraorder) Haeckel, 1866 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 478. [new position]
Ceratomorpha (Suborder) Wood, 1937 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 645.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 1f;4g;5s;13ss; ‡1g;1ss; †3f;95g;28s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 28 Jan 2015 [1f;4g;5s;13ss; ‡1g; †3f;95g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [1f;4g; ‡1g; †1f;94g]
1988 R.L. Carroll: 645 [1f; †2f]
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