Taeniodonta

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Taeniodonta
Temporal range: 70.0–39.7  Ma
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species from family Stylinodontidae
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skull of Conoryctes comma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Cope, 1876 [2]
Families
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Calamodontia (Haeckel, 1895)
  • Ganodonta (Wortman, 1896)
  • Stylinodontia (Haeckel, 1895)
  • Stylinodontidae (Marsh, 1875)
  • Taeniodontidae (Szalay, 1977)

Taeniodonta ("banded teeth") is an extinct order of eutherian mammals, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to the middle Eocene. [3] [4] [5]

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Taeniodonts evolved quickly into highly specialized digging animals, and varied greatly in size, from rat-sized to species as large as a bear. Later species developed prominent front teeth and huge claws for digging and rooting. Some genera, like Stylinodon , had ever-growing teeth. [6] The scarcity of taeniodont fossils can be explained by the fact that these animals probably lived in dry or arid climates unconductive to fossilization.

According to 2022 studies of Bertrand, O. C. and Sarah L. Shelley, taeniodonts are identified to be a basal placental mammal. [7] [8] Genera Alveugena , Ambilestes and Procerberus are the immediate outgroups to Taeniodonta, [9] with genus Alveugena classified as a sister taxon to this order.

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

From Thomas E. Williamson and Stephen L. Brusatte (2013): [10]

  • Order: †Taeniodonta(Cope, 1876)
    • Genus: † Schowalteria (Fox & Naylor, 2003)
      • Schowalteria clemensi(Fox & Naylor, 2003)
    • Family: † Conoryctidae (Wortman, 1896)
      • Subfamily: † Conoryctinae (Wortman, 1896)
        • Tribe: † Conoryctellini (Schoch, 1982)
          • Genus: † Conoryctella (Gazin, 1939)
            • Conoryctella dragonensis(Gazin, 1939)
            • Conoryctella pattersoni(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • Tribe: † Conoryctini (Wortman, 1896)
          • Genus: † Conoryctes (Cope, 1881)
            • Conoryctes comma(Cope, 1881)
          • Genus: † Huerfanodon (paraphyletic genus)(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon heilprinianus(Cope, 1882)
            • Huerfanodon polecatensis(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon torrejonius(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon sp. [USNM 9678] (Simpson, 1937)
      • Subfamily: † Eurodontinae (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
        • Genus: † Eurodon (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
          • Eurodon silveirinhensis(Estavis & Russel, 1992)
    • Family: † Onychodectidae (Winge, 1917)
      • Genus: † Onychodectes (Cope, 1888)
        • Onychodectes tisonensis(Cope, 1888)
          • Onychodectes tisonensis rarus(Osborn & Earle, 1895)
          • Onychodectes tisonensis tisonensis(Cope, 1888)
    • 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 Elephas africanus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - (white background).jpg

Boreoeutheria Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes (Plate XI).jpg

Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

 Taeniodonta 
  Schowalteria  

Schowalteria clemensi

  Conoryctidae  
  Conoryctinae  
  Conoryctini  
  Conoryctellini  
  Conoryctella  

Conoryctella dragonensis

Conoryctella pattersoni

  Eurodontinae  
  Eurodon  

Eurodon silveirinhensis

  Onychodectidae  
  Onychodectes  
 Onychodectes tisonensis 

Onychodectes tisonensis rarus

Onychodectes tisonensis tisonensis

  Stylinodontoidea  
  Stylinodontidae  
  Wortmaniinae  
  Wortmania  

Wortmania otariidens Wortmania otariidens recon 1.png

 ? 

Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana)

  Stylinodontinae  
  Psittacotheriini  
  Psittacotherium  

Psittacotherium multifragum Psittacotherium multifragumDB24.jpg

  Stylinodontini  
  Stylinodon  

Stylinodon mirus Stylinodon mirusDB24.jpg

  Ectoganini  
  Ectoganus  

Ectoganus bighornensis

Ectoganus copei

Ectoganus gliriformis

Ectoganus lobdelli

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