Stylinodontidae

Stylinodontidae Temporal range: 64.7–39.7  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Paleocene - Middle Eocene
species from family Stylinodontidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Eutheria
Infraclass:	Placentalia (?)
Order:	† Taeniodonta
Superfamily:	† Stylinodontoidea Marsh, 1875
Family:	† Stylinodontidae Marsh, 1875 [1]
Type genus
† Stylinodon Marsh, 1874
Subfamilies
†Stylinodontinae †Wortmaniinae
Synonyms
synonyms of family: Calamodontidae (Cope, 1876) Ectoganidae (Cope, 1876) Hemiganidae (Cope, 1888) Stylinodontinae (Schlosser, 1911) [2] Stylinodontini (Winge, 1917) [3]

Stylinodontidae ("teeth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct superfamily Stylinodontoidea ^[4] within extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America from the early Paleocene to middle Eocene. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Superfamily:†Stylinodontoidea(Marsh, 1875) Family: †Stylinodontidae(Marsh, 1875) Subfamily: † Stylinodontinae (Marsh, 1875) Tribe: † Ectoganini (Cope, 1876) Genus: † Ectoganus (Cope, 1874) †Ectoganus bighornensis(Schoch, 1981) †Ectoganus copei(Schoch, 1981) †Ectoganus gliriformis(Cope, 1874) †Ectoganus lobdelli(Simpson, 1929) Tribe: † Psittacotheriini (Schoch, 1982) Genus: † Psittacotherium (Cope, 1882) †Psittacotherium multifragum(Cope, 1882) Tribe: † Stylinodontini (Marsh, 1875) Genus: † Stylinodon (Marsh, 1874) †Stylinodon mirus(Marsh, 1874) Subfamily: † Wortmaniinae (Schoch, 1982) Genus: † Wortmania (Hay, 1899) †Wortmania otariidens(Cope 1885) †Wortmania sp. [Garfield County, Montana] (Clemens, 2013)

Phylogeny

Placentalia

Atlantogenata Boreoeutheria † Palaeoryctida † Ambilestes † Procerberidae † Alveugena † Taeniodonta † Schowalteria † Conoryctidae † Onychodectidae †Stylinodontoidea †Stylinodontidae † Wortmaniinae † Wortmania †Wortmania otariidens ? †Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana) † Stylinodontinae † Psittacotheriini † Psittacotherium †Psittacotherium multifragum † Stylinodontini † Stylinodon †Stylinodon mirus † Ectoganini † Ectoganus †Ectoganus bighornensis †Ectoganus copei †Ectoganus gliriformis †Ectoganus lobdelli

References

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2. Schlosser M. (1911.) "Mammalia", p. 325-585; In: F. Broili, E. Koken and M. Schlosser [eds.] "Grundzuge der Paläontologie (Paläozoologie) von Karl A. von Zittel". Druck und Verlag, von R. Oldenbourg, München and Berlin, vol. 2.
3. Winge H. (1917.) "Udsigt over Insektaedernes indbyrdes Slaeggtskab." Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København, 68: 82-203.
4. Turnbull, W. D. (2004). "Taeniodonta of the Washakie Formation, southwestern Wyoming" . Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 36. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History: 303–333. doi:10.2992/0145-9058(2004)36[303:TOTWFS]2.0.CO;2.
5. Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian; Dixon, Dougal (1988). "Early rooters and browsers". Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. Macmillan London Limited. ISBN   978-0-333-48699-3.
6. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-11012-9 . Retrieved 16 March 2015.
7. Williamson, T. E.; Brusatte, S. L. (2013). Viriot, Laurent (ed.). "New Specimens of the Rare Taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Comments on the Phylogeny and Functional Morphology of "Archaic" Mammals". PLOS ONE. 8 (9) e75886. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...875886W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075886 . PMC   3786969 . PMID   24098738.