Pentacodontidae
Fossil rangeearly to late Paleocene
Display parents2
TaxonPentacodontidae
AuthoritySimpson, 1937[1]
Type genus†Pentacodon
Type genus authorityScott, 1892
Subdivision ranksGenera
Subdivision
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.