TABLE 1. Summary of proposed morphotypes and taxonomic assignments by author of Trinity Group tribosphenidan lower molars.

 

Patterson (1956)

Slaughter (1965)

Type 1

Type 4

Type 2

Type 5

Type 3

Type 6 = size of Pappotherium pattersoni

 

 

Slaughter (1971)

Turnbull (1971)

SMU 61992 = Pappotherium pattersoni

Types 1, 2, 5 = Holoclemensia

 

Types 3, 4, 5 = Pappotherium

Butler (1978)

 

Type 3 = Kermackia texana

 

Type 2 = Pappotherium pattersoni

 

Type 1, 4, 5 = Holoclemensia

 

Type 6 = Trinititherium slaughteri

 

SMU 61992 = Slaughteria eruptens