Stylinodontinae

Stylinodontinae
Temporal range: 62.4–39.7 Ma Early Paleocene – Middle Eocene
species from subfamily Stylinodontinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: †Taeniodonta
Superfamily: †Stylinodontoidea
Family: †Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: †Stylinodontinae
Marsh, 1875[1]
Type genus
†Stylinodon
Marsh, 1874
Genera
[see classification]
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Psittacotheriinae (Matthew, 1937)
  • Psittcotheriinae (Schoch, 1986)
  • Stylinodontidae (Marsh, 1875)
  • Stylinodontini (Winge, 1917)[2]

Stylinodontinae ("teeth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from the early Paleocene to middle Eocene.[3][4][5]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Subfamily: †Stylinodontinae (Marsh, 1875)
    • Tribe: †Ectoganini (Cope, 1876)
      • Genus: †Ectoganus (Cope, 1874)
        • †Ectoganus bighornensis (Schoch, 1981)
        • †Ectoganus copei (Schoch, 1981)
        • †Ectoganus gliriformis (Cope, 1874)
        • †Ectoganus 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)

Phylogeny

 Placentalia 

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

†Palaeoryctida

†Ambilestes

†Procerberidae

†Alveugena

 †Taeniodonta 

†Schowalteria

 †Stylinodontoidea 
 †Stylinodontidae 

†Wortmaniinae

 †Stylinodontinae 
 †Psittacotheriini 
 †Psittacotherium 

†Psittacotherium multifragum

 †Stylinodontini 
 †Stylinodon 

†Stylinodon mirus

 †Ectoganini 
 †Ectoganus 

†Ectoganus bighornensis

†Ectoganus copei

†Ectoganus gliriformis

†Ectoganus lobdelli

References

  1. ^ Marsh, O. C. (1875.) "New Order of Eocene Mammals." American Journal of Science 9:221
  2. ^ Winge H. (1917.) "Udsigt over Insektaedernes indbyrdes Slaeggtskab." Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København, 68: 82–203.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
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