Patriomanis

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Patriomanis
Temporal range: 37.0–33.7  Ma
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Late Eocene to Early Oligocene
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fossil of Patriomanis americana
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Artist reconstruction of
Patriomanis americana
compared to the size of an adult human.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pholidota
Suborder: Eupholidota
Superfamily: Manoidea
Family: Patriomanidae
Genus: Patriomanis
Emry, 1970
Type species
Patriomanis americana
Emry, 1970 [1]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. americana:
    • Patriomanis americanus(Emry, 1970)

Patriomanis ("father of pangolins") is an extinct genus of pangolin from extinct family Patriomanidae. It lived from the late Eocene to early Oligocene of North America and it currently represents the only pangolin known from the Western Hemisphere. The genus contains one species, P. americana, which is known from six specimens, mostly from the Chadronian White River Formation of Montana. It had long digits and a prehensile tail, suggesting that it was arboreal, and its jaw was capable of opening wider than modern pangolins. Its ears and the hair between its scales were also longer than modern pangolins. [2]

Contents

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic position of genus Patriomanis within family Patriomanidae. [3] [4]

  Ferae  

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  Pholidotamorpha  

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  Pholidota  

Euromanis

 ? 

Pholidota sp. (BC 16’08)

Eurotamanduidae

  Eupholidota  

Eomanoidea

  Manoidea  

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 ? 

Necromanis

  Patriomanidae  

Cryptomanis

 Patriomanis 

Patriomanis americana

 sensu stricto 
 (Pholidota [sensu lato]) 

See also

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References

  1. R. J. Emry. (1970.) "A North American Oligocene pangolin and other additions to the Pholidota." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 142(6)
  2. Gaudin, T. J.; Emry, R. J.; Morris, J. (2016). "Skeletal anatomy of the North American pangolin Patriomanis americana (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Latest Eocene of Wyoming (USA)". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (98): vii-102. doi: 10.5479/si.1943-6688.98 .
  3. Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media. 16 (4): 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID   1773698. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  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. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..983K. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   86059673.