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Tylopoda

Taxonomy

Tylopoda was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Matthew (1908).

It was reranked as the suborder Tylopoda by Prothero (1986), Carroll (1988), Ursing et al. (2000) and Whistler and Webb (2005); it was reranked as the unranked clade Tylopoda by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Matthew (1908), Hooker (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Asher and Helgen (2010).

It was assigned to Ruminantia by Matthew (1908); to Artiodactyla by Flower (1883), Prothero (1986) and Carroll (1988); to Neoselenodontia by Whistler and Webb (2005); to Artiodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Hooker (2007); to Cetartiodactyla by Ursing et al. (2000) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Artiodactyla by Asher and Helgen (2010).

Subtaxa

Amphimerycidae, Anoplotheriidae, Camelidae, Cameloidea, Merycoidodontoidea, Oromerycidae, Poebrotheriidae, Xiphodontoidea

Sister taxa

Amphimerycidae, Anoplotheriidae, Camelidae, Oromerycidae, Poebrotheriidae

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Synonyms

Camelidamorpha was named by Spaulding et al. (2009). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tylopoda by Alroy (2011).

It was assigned to Artiodactyla by Spaulding et al. (2009).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1811	Tylopoda Illiger p. 102
1883	Tylopoda Flower p. 184
1891	Tylopoda Flower and Lydekker p. 90
1908	Tylopoda Matthew p. 561
1986	Tylopoda Prothero p. 458
1988	Tylopoda Carroll
2000	Tylopoda Ursing et al.
2005	Tylopoda Whistler and Webb p. 5
2007	Tylopoda Hooker p. 613
2008	Tylopoda Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 2
2009	Camelidamorpha Spaulding et al. p. 3 figs. Table 1
2010	Tylopoda Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1

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