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Taxon: Superfamily †Chalicotherioidea Gill, 1872 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Selenida (Clade) McKenna & Bell 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 473 (note 1).

Subsequent positions

Selenida (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 477.

Original entries

Questionably Chalicotheriidae (Family) Gill, 1872
Questionably Eomoropidae (Family) Matthew, 1929
Questionably Pernatherium (Genus) Gervais, 1876

Current position

Ceratomorpha (Suborder) Wood, 1937 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 477; Benton, 2015: 445. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Selenida (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 477. [new position]

Historical positions

Selenida (Infraorder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 477. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2025 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †2f;17g;1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [; †2f;17g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [; †2f;17g]
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