Wortmania

Wortmania Temporal range: 64.7–63.8  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Paleocene
Wortmania otariidens A - illustration of skull B - illustration of skeleton C - life reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Taeniodonta
Family:	† Stylinodontidae
Subfamily:	† Wortmaniinae Schoch, 1982 [1]
Genus:	† Wortmania Hay, 1899 [2]
Type species
†Wortmania otariidens Cope, 1885 [3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Hemiganus(Wortman, 1897) Robertschochia(Lucas, 2011) [4] Schochia(Lucas & Williamson, 1993) [5] synonyms of species: W. otariidens: Hemiganus otariidens(Cope, 1885) Robertschochia sullivani(Lucas, 2011) Schochia sullivani(Lucas & Williamson, 1993)

Wortmania ("Wotman's animal") ^[6] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Phylogeny

Placentalia	Atlantogenata Boreoeutheria † Palaeoryctida † Ambilestes † Procerberidae † Alveugena † Taeniodonta † Schowalteria † Conoryctidae † Onychodectidae † Stylinodontoidea † Stylinodontidae † Stylinodontinae †Wortmaniinae †Wortmania †Wortmania otariidens ? †Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana)

References

1. Schoch, R. M. (1982.) "Phylogeny, classification and paleobiology of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria)." Third North Am. Paleontol. Conv. Proc. 2: 465-70
2. O. P. Hay (1899). ""On the Names of Certain North American Fossil Vertebrates."" . Science. 9 (225): 593–594. Bibcode:1899Sci.....9..593H. doi:10.1126/science.9.225.593. PMID   17772698.
3. "Geology and Palaeontology" . The American Naturalist. 19 (5): 492–497. 1885. doi:10.1086/273958.
4. Lucas, Spencer G. (2011). "Robertschochia, a new name for the Paleocene mammal Schochia Lucas and Williamson, 1993". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1216–1217. Bibcode:2011JPal...85.1216L. doi:10.1666/11-006.1. S2CID   128401699.
5. Lucas, Spencer G.; Williamson, Thomas E. (1993). "A New Taeniodont from the Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico". Journal of Mammalogy. 74 (1): 175–179. doi:10.2307/1381918. JSTOR   1381918.
6. Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U.S. Government Printing Office.
7. Schoch, Robert M. (1986.) "Systematics, functional morphology and macroevolution of the extinct mammalian order Taeniodonta." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, (42).
8. 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.
9. S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and T. E. Williamson (1998.) "Taeniodonta". In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals", Cambridge University Press, 703 pages
10. 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.