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Taxon: Superfamily Cervoidea Batsch, 1788 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Original position

Questionably Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777

Original entries

Questionably †*Hoplitomerycidae* (Family) Leinders, 1983
Questionably †*Walangania* (Genus) Whitworth, 1958

Subsequent entries

*Antilocapridae* (Family) Gray, 1866
*Cervidae* (Family) Batsch, 1788
†*Eumeryx* (Genus) Matthew & Granger, 1924
*Moschidae* (Family) Gray, 1821
†*Palaeomerycidae* (Family) Lydekker, 1883
†*Rutitherium* (Genus) Filhol, 1877

Current position

Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: van der Geer, 2014: 14

Alternative positions

*Ruminantia* (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 421. [implicit]
*Ruminantia* (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 421.

Historical positions

*Ruminantia* (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 421.
*Pecora* (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 641.
*Pecora* (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	3f;18g;52s;84ss; ‡1g;1s;2ss; †2f;93g;43s;2ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	3f;18g;49s; ‡1g;1s; †2f;94g
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[3f;18g; ‡1g; †2f;94g]
1988	R.L. Carroll: 642	[3f; †1f]
1945	G.G. Simpson:	[1f]

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