Biology:Didolodontidae

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Short description: Extinct family of mammals

Didolodontidae
Temporal range: Selandian–Priabonian
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Didolodus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Meridiungulata
Family: Didolodontidae
Savage, 1951
Genera

Didolodontidae is a possibly paraphyletic family of "condylarth" mammals known from the Paleogene of South America,[2][3] with most specimens known from Argentina. They were generally small-medium in body size, and had a bunodont dentition. A close relationship with litopterns has been suggested by some studies.[4] They range in age from the early Paleocene (Selandian/Peligran) to late Eocene (Priabonian/Mustersan). The attribution of Salladolodus deuterotheroides from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia to the family is doubtful.[5]

References

  1. Javier N. Gelfo; Ricardo N. Alonso; Richard H. Madden; Alfredo A. Carlini (2019). "An Eocene bunodont South American native ungulate (Didolodontidae) from the Lumbrera Formation, Salta Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana. in press. doi:10.5710/AMGH.29.11.2019.3293.
  2. Javier N. Gelfo and Bernard Sigé (2011). "A new didolodontid mammal from the late Paleocene–earliest Eocene of Laguna Umayo, Peru" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (4): 665–678. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0067.
  3. J. N. Gelfo. 2010. The "condylarth" Didolodontidae from Gran Barranca: history of the bunodont South American mammals until the Eocene-Oligocene transition. In R. H. Madden, A. A. Carlini, M. G. Vucetich, R. F. Kay (eds.), The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 130-14
  4. Croft, Darin A.; Gelfo, Javier N.; López, Guillermo M. (2020-05-30). "Splendid Innovation: The Extinct South American Native Ungulates" (in en). Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48 (1): 259–290. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-072619-060126. ISSN 0084-6597. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-072619-060126. 
  5. Gelfo, Javier N.; Alonso, Ricardo N.; Madden, Richard H.; Carlini, Alfredo A. (2019-12-10). "An Eocene Bunodont South American Native Ungulate (Didolodontidae) from the Lumbrera Formation, Salta Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana 57 (2): 132. doi:10.5710/AMGH.29.11.2019.3293. ISSN 0002-7014. https://bioone.org/journals/ameghiniana/volume-57/issue-2/AMGH.29.11.2019.3293/An-Eocene-Bunodont-South-American-Native-Ungulate-Didolodontidae-from-the/10.5710/AMGH.29.11.2019.3293.full. 

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