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Nimravus Cope 1879

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  • 1. Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France)

Description

Nimravus Cope, 1879

TYPE SPECIES. — Machaerodus brachyops Cope, 1878 by original designation.

REMARKS

The genus was created by Cope (1879) for the species M. brachyops from the Oligocene of Nebraska, United States (Cope 1878). One year later, he changed the generic name to Nimravus. The type species is widespread in North America in the middle to late Oligocene (Toohey, 1959). A European species, Nimravus intermedius (Filhol 1872a) has characters that are so close to those of N. brachyops that Toohey wrote, “I cannot, with the available materials and excellent figures in Piveteau’s study, distinguish any consistent morphological differences between N. brachyops and N.intermedius ”. (Toohey 1959: 95). In Europe, Nimravus was present in early and middle Oligocene strata.

Notes

Published as part of Bonis, Louis de, Gardin, Axelle & Blondel, Cécile, 2019, Carnivora from the early Oligocene of the ' Phosphorites du Quercy' in southwestern France, pp. 601-621 in Geodiversitas 41 (15) on page 615, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a15, http://zenodo.org/record/3694209

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487991A70FF8EFC42FA3B6BF9F860

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a15 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3694209 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9DFFE11A60FF9EFFADFF8D6E62FF8E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DD3CC29-3AEA-44B8-8E8F-6AD882DF5B1C (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03A487991A70FF8EFC42FA3B6BF9F860 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/162367522 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/23768/taxon/03A487991A70FF8EFC42FA3B6BF9F860.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Nimravidae
Genus
Nimravus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Cope
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nimravus Cope, 1879 sec. Bonis, Gardin & Blondel, 2019

References

  • COPE E. D. 1879. - On the genera of Felidae and Canidae. Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 31: 168 - 194. https: // www. jstor. org / stable / 4060308
  • COPE E. D. 1878. - Vertebrate fauna of the Miocene of Oregon. Paleontological Journal 30: 1 - 16.
  • TOOHEY L. 1959. - The species of Nimravus (Carnivora, Felidae). Bulletin of the American Museum Natural History 118: 71 - 112. http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 1972
  • FILHOL H. 1872 a. - Sur les Carnassiers et les Cheiropteres dont on trouve les debris fossiles dans les gisements de phosphorites de Caylux, Fregols, Concots. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences 75: 92 - 94. https: // gallica. bnf. fr / ark: / 12148 / bpt 6 k 30321 / f 94. item