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Taxon: Family †Brontotheriidae Marsh, 1873 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Brontotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1873

Original entries

Questionably Brontopinae (Subfamily) Osborn, 1914
Questionably Brontotheriinae (Subfamily) Marsh, 1873
Questionably Dolichorhininae (Subfamily) Riggs, 1912
Questionably Embolotheriinae (Subfamily) Osborn, 1929
Questionably Lambdotheriinae (Subfamily) Cope, 1889
Questionably Menodontinae (Subfamily) Cope, 1881
Questionably Nanotitan (Genus) Qi & Beard, 1996
Questionably Pakotitanops (Genus) West, 1980
Questionably Palaeosyopinae (Subfamily) Steinmann & Döderlein, 1890
Questionably Telmatheriinae (Subfamily) Osborn, 1914

Current position

Brontotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1873 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 473.

Alternative positions

Hippomorpha (Superfamily) Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.
Hippomorpha (Suborder) Wood, 1937 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 304.

Historical positions

Hippomorpha (Superfamily) Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.
Hippomorpha (Superfamily) Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 402.
Brontotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1873 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 473.
Perissodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: 1995
Hippomorpha (Suborder) Wood, 1937 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 304.
Brontotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1873 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 644).
Brontotherioidea (Superfamily) Marsh, 1873 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †43g
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [; †43g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [; †43g]
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