Ectoganus

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Ectoganus
Temporal range: 57.8–50.5  Ma
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late Paleocene to early Eocene
Ectoganus horsfall 1913.jpg
head of Ectoganus gliriformis
(Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Superfamily: Stylinodontoidea
Family: Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: Stylinodontinae
Tribe: Ectoganini
Cope, 1876 [1]
Genus: Ectoganus
Cope, 1874 [2]
Type species
Ectoganus gliriformis
Cope, 1874
Species
  • E. bighornensis(Schoch, 1981) [3]
  • E. copei(Schoch, 1981)
  • E. gliriformis(Cope, 1874)
  • E. lobdelli(Simpson, 1929) [4]
Synonyms [5]
synonyms of genus:
  • Calamodon(Cope, 1874)
  • Conicodon(Cope, 1894) [6]
  • Dryptodon(Marsh, 1876) [7]
  • Lampadophorus(Patterson, 1949) [8]
synonyms of species:
  • E. bighornensis:
    • Ectoganus copei bighornensis(Schoch, 1981)
  • E. copei:
    • Ectoganus copei copei(Schoch, 1981)
  • E. gliriformis:
    • Calamodon arcamaenus(Cope, 1874)
    • Calamodon arcamnaeus(Wortman, 1897) [9]
    • Calamodon arcamoenus(Cope, 1874)
    • Calamodon novomehicanus(Cope, 1874)
    • Calamodon simplex(Cope, 1874)
    • Conicodon simplex(Cope, 1894)
    • Dryptodon crassus(Marsh, 1876)
    • Ectoganus gliriformis gliriformis(Schoch, 1981)
    • Ectoganus novomehicanus(Cope, 1877) [10]
    • Ectoganus simplex(Guthrie, 1967) [11]
  • E. lobdelli:
    • Ectoganus gliriformis lobdelli(Schoch, 1981)
    • Lampadophorus expectatus(Patterson, 1949)
    • Lampadophorus lobdelli(Patterson, 1949)
    • Psittacotherium lobdelli(Simpson, 1929)

Ectoganus ("outside brightness") [12] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from tribe Ectoganini within subfamily Stylinodontinae and family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from late Paleocene to early Eocene. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Phylogeny

  Placentalia  

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Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

  Taeniodonta  

Schowalteria

  Stylinodontoidea  
  Stylinodontidae  

Wortmaniinae Wortmania otariidens recon 1.png

  Stylinodontinae  

Psittacotheriini Psittacotherium multifragumDB24.jpg

Stylinodontini Stylinodon mirusDB24.jpg

 Ectoganini 
 Ectoganus 

Ectoganus bighornensis

Ectoganus copei

Ectoganus gliriformis

Ectoganus lobdelli

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