Ernanodontidae

Ernanodontidae Temporal range: 62.22–56.0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle to late Paleocene
Reconstruction of Ernanodon antelios
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Palaeanodonta
Family:	† Ernanodontidae Ding, 1979 [1]
Type genus
† Ernanodon Ding, 1979
Genera
† Asiabradypus † Ernanodon

Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of myrmecophagous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in Asia from the middle to late Paleocene. ^{[2] [3]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

• Family: †Ernanodontidae(Ting, 1979)
  • Genus: † Asiabradypus (Nessov, 1987)
    • †Asiabradypus incompositus(Nessov, 1987)
  • Genus: † Ernanodon (Ting, 1979)
    • †Ernanodon antelios(Ting, 1979)

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of family Ernanodontidae are shown in the following cladogram: ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Ferae	Pan-Carnivora Pholidotamorpha Pholidota(sensu stricto) † Palaeanodonta † Escavadodontidae ? † Melaniella † Amelotabes † Epoicotheriidae † Epoicotherium † Molaetherium † Xenocranium † Epoicotheriinae † Tetrapassalus † Dipassalus † Alocodontulum † Auroratherium † Pentapassalus † Tubulodon ? † Arcticanodon † Propalaeanodontinae † Mylanodon † Brachianodon † Palaeanodon † Metacheiromyinae † Metacheiromys †Ernanodontidae † Asiabradypus †Asiabradypus incompositus ? † Ernanodon †Ernanodon antelios (Pholidotasensu lato)	†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade † Metacheiromyidae

See also

• Mammal classification
• Palaeanodonta

References

1. S. Ding (1979.) "A new edentate from the Paleocene of Guandong." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17:57-64
2. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Ernanodontidae
3. Jehle, Martin (2008). "Genera and species of Paleocene mammals". Paleocene Mammals.
4. Kenneth D. Rose (2008). "Palaeanodonta and Pholidota". In Janis, Christine M; Gunnell, Gregg F; Uhen, Mark D (eds.). 9 - Palaeanodonta and Pholidota. pp. 135–146. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511541438.010. ISBN   9780511541438.
5. Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (4). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media: 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID   1773698. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
6. 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. S2CID   86059673.