Patriomanidae

Patriomanidae Temporal range: 42.0–33.9  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle to late Eocene
fossil of Patriomanis americana
Artist reconstruction of Patriomanis americana compared to the size of an adult human.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Pholidota
Suborder:	Eupholidota
Superfamily:	Manoidea
Family:	† Patriomanidae Szalay & Schrenk, 1998 [1]
Type genus
† Patriomanis Emry, 1970
Genera
† Cryptomanis † Patriomanis

Patriomanidae ("fathers of pangolins") is an extinct family of pangolins from superfamily Manoidea that includes two extinct genera Patriomanis and Cryptomanis . ^[2] Their fossils are found in Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

Family: † PatriomanidaeSzalay & Schrenk, 1998 Genus: † Cryptomanis Gaudin, Emry, and Pogue, 2006 †Cryptomanis gobiensisGaudin, Emry, and Pogue, 2006 Genus: † Patriomanis Emry, 1970 †Patriomanis americanaEmry, 1970

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic position of family Patriomanidae within order Pholidota based on Kondrashov & Agadjanian (2012.) study: ^[3]

	Eulipotyphla   Erinaceus   Carnivora   Nandinia   Pholidotamorpha   † Palaeanodonta   Pholidota   † Euromanis † Afredentata   Eupholidota   † Eomanoidea   Manoidea   Manidae  ?  † Necromanis  †Patriomanidae   † Cryptomanis   †Cryptomanis gobiensis  † Patriomanis   †Patriomanis americana

See also

• Mammal classification
• Manoidea

References

1. Frederick S. Szalay and Friedemann Schrenk (1998) "The Middle Eocene Eurotamandua and a Darwinian phylogenetic Analysis." Kaupia 7, pp. 97-186
2. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
3. 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. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..983K. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN   0272-4634.