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Carnivora (carnivoran)
Taxonomy
Carnivora was named by Bowditch (1821). It is extant.
It was assigned to Unguiculata by Cope (1889); to Eutheria by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Monodelphia by Hay (1930); to Eutheria by Flower (1883), Carroll (1988) and Nowak (1991); to Zooamata by Waddell et al. (1999); to Mammalia by Lydekker (1885), Andrews (1906), Tedford (1976), Barnes (1979), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Barnes (1987), Barnes (1988), Shoshani et al. (1989), Barnes (1989), Kohno (1992), Barnes (1992), Tedford et al. (1994), Barnes and Hirota (1995), Kohno (1996), Sepkoski (2002), Davis et al. (2004), Barnes et al. (2006), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Kohno (2006) and Kohno and Ray (2008); to Ferae by McKenna (1975), Waddell et al. (2001) and Asher and Helgen (2010); to Laurasiatheria by Madsen et al. (2001) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Carnivoramorpha by Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005), Spaulding et al. (2009), Spaulding et al. (2010) and Tomiya (2011).
It was assigned to Unguiculata by Cope (1889); to Eutheria by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Monodelphia by Hay (1930); to Eutheria by Flower (1883), Carroll (1988) and Nowak (1991); to Zooamata by Waddell et al. (1999); to Mammalia by Lydekker (1885), Andrews (1906), Tedford (1976), Barnes (1979), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Barnes (1987), Barnes (1988), Shoshani et al. (1989), Barnes (1989), Kohno (1992), Barnes (1992), Tedford et al. (1994), Barnes and Hirota (1995), Kohno (1996), Sepkoski (2002), Davis et al. (2004), Barnes et al. (2006), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Kohno (2006) and Kohno and Ray (2008); to Ferae by McKenna (1975), Waddell et al. (2001) and Asher and Helgen (2010); to Laurasiatheria by Madsen et al. (2001) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Carnivoramorpha by Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005), Spaulding et al. (2009), Spaulding et al. (2010) and Tomiya (2011).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Viverra memphitis Linnaeus p. 44 |
| 1791 | Fissipeda Blumenbach |
| 1821 | Carnivora Bowditch |
| 1883 | Carnivora Flower p. 186 |
| 1885 | Carnivora Lydekker p. 196 |
| 1889 | Carnivora Cope p. 875 |
| 1889 | Fissipedia Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Carnivora Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1891 | Fissipedia Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1906 | Carnivora Andrews p. 218 |
| 1910 | Fissipedia Gregory p. 465 |
| 1930 | Carnivora Hay p. 456 |
| 1975 | Carnivora McKenna p. 42 |
| 1976 | Carnivora Tedford p. 372 |
| 1979 | Carnivora Barnes p. 8 |
| 1981 | Carnivora Thurmond and Jones p. 174 |
| 1987 | Carnivora Barnes p. 3 |
| 1988 | Carnivora Barnes p. 2 |
| 1988 | Carnivora Carroll |
| 1989 | Carnivora Barnes p. 3 |
| 1989 | Carnivora Shoshani et al. p. 436 |
| 1991 | Carnivora Nowak |
| 1991 | Fissipedia Vidal p. 6 |
| 1992 | Carnivora Barnes p. 3 |
| 1992 | Carnivora Kohno p. 16 |
| 1994 | Carnivora Tedford et al. p. 12 |
| 1995 | Carnivora Barnes and Hirota p. 330 |
| 1996 | Carnivora Kohno p. 389 |
| 1999 | Carnivora Waddell et al. p. 3 |
| 2001 | Carnivora Madsen et al. p. 610 |
| 2001 | Carnivora Waddell et al. p. 148 |
| 2002 | Carnivora Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2004 | Carnivora Davis et al. p. 365 |
| 2005 | Carnivora Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin p. 842 |
| 2006 | Carnivora Barnes et al. p. 59 |
| 2006 | Carnivora Hulbert and Whitmore p. 5 |
| 2006 | Carnivora Kohno p. 411 |
| 2008 | Carnivora Kohno and Ray p. 44 |
| 2009 | Carnivora Spaulding et al. |
| 2010 | Carnivora Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2010 | Carnivora Silcox et al. |
| 2010 | Carnivora Spaulding et al. p. 815 |
| 2011 | Carnivora Tomiya p. 3 |
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