Pseudictopidae

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Pseudictopidae
Temporal range: PaleoceneEocene, 61.7–48.6  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Anagaloidea
Family: Pseudictopidae
Sulimski, 1969
Type genus
Pseudictops
Matthew, Granger & Simpson, 1929
Genera

Pseudictopidae is an extinct family of mammals closely related to rodents and lagomorphs. Members of the family are known from Paleocene to Eocene deposits in China and Mongolia. [1]

Taxonomic history

The family Pseudictopidae was erected in 1969 by Andrez Sulimsky as a monotypic family, with Pseudictops as the type and only genus, though later authors would assign more genera to the family. Sulimsky tentatively assigned Pseudictopidae to Eutheria incertae sedis , believing that it and Anagalidae were representatives of an unknown order. [2] In 1971, Szalay and McKenna erected the order Anagalida, to which Pseudictopidae was assigned. [3]

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References

  1. Carroll, Robert L. (1988). Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Freeman. ISBN   978-0-7167-1822-2.
  2. Sulimski, Andrzej (1969). "Paleocene genus 'Pseudictops' Matthew, Granger and Simpson 1929 (Mammalia) and its revision" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica: 101–129.
  3. Szalay, Frederick; McKenna, Malcolm (June 1971). "Beginning of the Age of Mammals in Asia: the Late Paleocene Gashato fauna, Mongolia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 144 (4): 269–318.