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Stylinodontidae

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Stylinodontidae
Temporal range: 64.7–39.7 Ma Early Paleocene - Middle Eocene
species from family Stylinodontidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Stylinodontidae
Marsh, 1875[1]
Type genus
Stylinodon
Marsh, 1874
Subfamilies
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Calamodontidae (Cope, 1876)
  • Ectoganidae (Cope, 1876)
  • Hemiganidae (Cope, 1888)
  • Stylinodontinae (Schlosser, 1911)[2]
  • Stylinodontini (Winge, 1917)[3]

Stylinodontidae ("teeth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America from the early Paleocene to middle Eocene.[4][5][6]

Taxonomy and phylogeny[edit]

Taxonomy[edit]

  • Family: †Stylinodontidae (Marsh, 1875)
    • Subfamily: †Stylinodontinae (Marsh, 1875)
      • Tribe: †Ectoganini (Cope, 1876)
        • Genus: †Ectoganus (Cope, 1874)
          • Ectoganus copei (Schoch, 1981)
            • Ectoganus copei bighornensis (Schoch, 1981)
            • Ectoganus copei copei (Schoch, 1981)
          • Ectoganus gliriformis (Cope, 1874)
            • Ectoganus gliriformis gliriformis (Cope, 1874)
            • Ectoganus gliriformis lobdelli (Simpson, 1929)
      • Tribe: †Psittacotheriini (Schoch, 1982)
        • Genus: †Psittacotherium (Cope, 1882)
          • Psittacotherium multifragum (Cope, 1882)
      • Tribe: †Stylinodontini (Marsh, 1875)
        • Genus: †Stylinodon (Marsh, 1874)
          • Stylinodon inexplicatus (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
          • Stylinodon mirus (Marsh, 1874)
    • Subfamily: †Wortmaniinae (Schoch, 1982)
      • Genus: †Wortmania (Hay, 1899)
        • Wortmania otariidens (Cope 1885)

Phylogeny[edit]

 Placentalia 

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

 †Taeniodonta 

Schowalteria

Onychodectidae

Conoryctidae

 †Stylinodontidae 
 †Wortmaniinae 
 †Wortmania 

Wortmania otariidens

 †Stylinodontinae 
 †Psittacotheriini 
 †Psittacotherium 

Psittacotherium multifragum

 †Ectoganini 
 †Ectoganus 

Ectoganus copei

Ectoganus gliriformis

 †Stylinodontini 
 †Stylinodon 

Stylinodon inexplicatus

Stylinodon mirus

References[edit]

  1. ^ Marsh, O. C. (1875.) "New Order of Eocene Mammals." American Journal of Science 9:221
  2. ^ Schlosser M. (1911.) "Mammalia", p. 325-585; In: F. Broili, E. Koken and M. Schlosser [eds.] "Grundzuge der Paläontologie (Paläozoologie) von Karl A. von Zittel". Druck und Verlag, von R. Oldenbourg, München and Berlin, vol. 2.
  3. ^ Winge H. (1917.) "Udsigt over Insektaedernes indbyrdes Slaeggtskab." Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København, 68: 82-203.
  4. ^ Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian; Dixon, Dougal (1988). "Early rooters and browsers". Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. Macmillan London Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-48699-3.
  5. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  6. ^ Williamson, T. E.; Brusatte, S. L. (2013). Viriot, Laurent (ed.). "New Specimens of the Rare Taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Comments on the Phylogeny and Functional Morphology of "Archaic" Mammals". PLOS ONE. 8 (9): e75886. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...875886W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075886. PMC 3786969. PMID 24098738.