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
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] [4]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

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

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. 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.