Pentacodontidae

Pentacodontidae Temporal range: 63.8–50.5  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to late Paleocene
mandibula of Aphronorus fraudator
mandibula of Bisonalveus browni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Mirorder:	Ferae
Order:	† Pantolesta
Family:	† Pentacodontidae Simpson, 1937 [1]
Type genus
† Pentacodon Scott, 1892
Genera
† Aphronorus † Bisonalveus † Coriphagus † Eurolestes † Pentacodon
Synonyms
Pentacodontinae (Simpson, 1937)

Pentacodontidae ("teeth with five points") is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America and Europe ^[2] from the early to late Paleocene. ^{[3] [4]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Family: †Pentacodontidae(Simpson, 1937) Genus: † Aphronorus (Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus bearspawensis(Scott, 2013) †Aphronorus fraudator(Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus orieli(Gazin, 1969) †Aphronorus ratatoski(Winterfeld, 1982) †Aphronorus simpsoni(Gazin, 1938) Genus: † Bisonalveus (Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus browni(Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus gracilis(Fox & Scott, 2020) †Bisonalveus holtzmani(Gingerich, 1983) Genus: † Coriphagus (Douglass, 1908) †Coriphagus encinensis(Matthew & Granger, 1921) †Coriphagus montanus(Douglass, 1908) Genus: † Eurolestes (De Bast & Smith, 2016) †Eurolestes dupuisi(De Bast & Smith, 2016) Genus: † Pentacodon (Scott, 1892) †Pentacodon inversus(Cope, 1888) †Pentacodon occultus(Matthew, 1937)

References

1. G. G. Simpson (1937.) "The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas." Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287
2. Eric De Bast; Thierry Smith (2016). "The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (9): 741–785. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1237582. S2CID   89203431.
3. L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
4. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Pentacodontidae