Biology:Escavadodon
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Short description: Extinct family of mammals
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
Family: | †Escavadodontidae Rose & Lucas, 2000 |
Genus: | †Escavadodon Rose & Lucas, 2000[1] |
Type species | |
†Escavadodon zygus Rose & Lucas, 2000
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Escavadodon ("tooth from Escavada") is an extinct genus of pangolin-like myrmecophagous placental mammals of extinct monotypic family Escavadodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the middle Paleocene.[1][2] It contains a single species, Escavadodon zygus, recovered from the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
Phylogenetic tree
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Escavadodon is shown in the following cladogram:[3][4][5]
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rose, Kenneth D.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2000). "An early Paleocene palaeanodont (Mammalia, ?Pholidota) from New Mexico, and the origin of Palaeanodonta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (1): 139–156. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0139:AEPPMP2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ↑ Paleobiology Database: Escavadodontidae basic info.
- ↑ Kenneth D. Rose (2008). "Palaeanodonta and Pholidota". in Janis, Christine M; Gunnell, Gregg F; Uhen, Mark D. 9 - Palaeanodonta and Pholidota. pp. 135–146. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511541438.010. ISBN 9780511541438.
- ↑ Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis". Journal of Mammalian Evolution (Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media) 16 (4): 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. http://web2.utc.edu/~gvv824/Gaudin%20et%20al%202009.pdf. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ Kondrashov, Peter; Agadjanian, Alexandre K. (2012). "A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (5): 983–1001. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634.
Wikidata ☰ Q5397137 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escavadodon.
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