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Purgatorius
Taxonomy
Purgatorius was named by Van Valen and Sloan (1965). It is not extant. Its type is Purgatorius unio.
It was assigned to Purgatoriinae by Van Valen and Sloan (1965); to Plesiadapiformes by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Eutheria by Wible et al. (2007); to Primates by Bloch et al. (2007) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Purgatoriidae by Gunnell (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fox and Scott (2011).
It was assigned to Purgatoriinae by Van Valen and Sloan (1965); to Plesiadapiformes by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Eutheria by Wible et al. (2007); to Primates by Bloch et al. (2007) and Silcox et al. (2010); and to Purgatoriidae by Gunnell (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fox and Scott (2011).
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Purgatorius Van Valen and Sloan p. 743 |
| 1965 | Purgatorius ceratops Van Valen and Sloan p. 744 |
| 1979 | Purgatorius Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 223 |
| 1979 | Purgatorius ceratops Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 223 |
| 1989 | Purgatorius Gunnell p. 11 |
| 1994 | Purgatorius ceratops Van Valen |
| 1997 | Purgatorius McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Purgatorius Bloch et al. p. 1162 |
| 2007 | Purgatorius Wible et al. |
| 2010 | Purgatorius Silcox et al. |
| 2011 | Purgatorius Fox and Scott |
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