Biology:Pentacodontidae

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Pentacodontidae ("teeth with five points") is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America and Europe[1] from the early to late Paleocene.[2][3]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Family: †Pentacodontidae (Simpson, 1937)
    • Genus: †Aphronorus (Simpson, 1935)
      • Aphronorus bearspawensis (Scott, 2013)
      • Aphronorus fraudator (Simpson, 1935)
      • Aphronorus orieli (Gazin, 1969)
      • Aphronorus ratatoski (Winterfeld, 1982)
      • Aphronorus simpsoni (Gazin, 1938)
    • Genus: †Bisonalveus (Gazin, 1956)
      • Bisonalveus browni (Gazin, 1956)
      • Bisonalveus gracilis (Fox & Scott, 2020)
      • Bisonalveus holtzmani (Gingerich, 1983)
    • Genus: †Coriphagus (Douglass, 1908)
      • Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew & Granger, 1921)
      • Coriphagus montanus (Douglass, 1908)
    • Genus: †Eurolestes (De Bast & Smith, 2016)
      • Eurolestes dupuisi (De Bast & Smith, 2016)
    • Genus: †Pentacodon (Scott, 1892)
      • Pentacodon inversus (Cope, 1888)
      • Pentacodon occultus (Matthew, 1937)

References

  1. Eric De Bast; Thierry Smith (2016). "The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (9): 741–785. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1237582. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309755968. 
  2. L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
  3. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Template:Page

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