Biology:Altacreodus
| Altacreodus | |
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| lower jaw of Altacreodus magnus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Mirorder: | Ferae |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Genus: | †Altacreodus Fox, 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Altacreodus magnus Clemens & Russell, 1965[2]
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Altacreodus ("creodont from Alberta")[1] is a extinct genus of one of the earliest known placental mammal. Fossils have been found in North America where they first appeared during the Late Cretaceous, and they died out prior to the start of the Paleocene.
The type species is "Cimolestes" magnus, which was renamed Altacreodus magnus in 2015.[1] Recent phylogenetic analyses suggests that genus Altacreodus is member of clade Ferae and closest known sister taxon to genus Tinerhodon. With this genus it forms stem group of mammals close to crown group of order Hyaenodonta.[3][4]
Phylogeny
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Altacreodus are shown in the following cladogram.[5][6][4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richard C. Fox (2015). "A revision of the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene eutherian mammal Cimolestes (Marsh, 1889)". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52 (12): 1137–1149. doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0113.
- ↑ Clemens, W. A. Jr. and Russell, L. S. (1965.) "Mammalian fossils from the upper Edmonton Formation." University of Alberta Geology Bulletin, 2: 32–40.
- ↑ Zack, S. P. (2011). "New species of the rare early Eocene creodont Galecyon and the radiation of early Hyaenodontidae". Journal of Paleontology 85 (2): 315–336. doi:10.1666/10-093.1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). "The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian". Geodiversitas 42 (13): 185–214. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13. http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/42/13.
- ↑ Borths, Matthew R; Stevens, Nancy J (2017). "Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, "Creodonta," Placentalia, Mammalia)". Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (3): 55A. doi:10.26879/776. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/2056-deciduous-hyaenodont-teeth.
- ↑ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (1): e1570222. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222.
Wikidata ☰ Q55603737 entry
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