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Conoryctidae
Temporal range: 63.8–55.2 Ma Early Paleocene - Early Eocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: †Taeniodonta
Family: †Conoryctidae
Wortman, 1896[1]
Type genus
†Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Conoryctinae (Schlosser, 1911)[2]
  • Conoryctini (Winge, 1917)[3]

Conoryctidae ("cone diggers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America and Europe from the early Paleocene to early Eocene.[4][5][6]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • 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 (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
          • †Huerfanodon heilprinianus (Cope, 1882)
          • †Huerfanodon polecatensis (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
          • †Huerfanodon torrejonius (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
    • Subfamily: †Eurodontinae (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
      • Genus: †Eurodon (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
        • †Eurodon silveirinhensis (Estavis & Russel, 1992)

Phylogeny

 Placentalia 

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

†Palaeoryctida

†Ambilestes

†Procerberidae

†Alveugena

 †Taeniodonta 

†Schowalteria

†Stylinodontoidea

†Onychodectidae

 †Conoryctidae 
 †Eurodontinae 
 †Eurodon 

†Eurodon silveirinhensis

 †Conoryctinae 
 †Conoryctellini 
 †Conoryctella 

†Conoryctella dragonensis

†Conoryctella pattersoni

 †Conoryctini 

References

  1. ^ Wortman, J. L. (1896.) "The Ganodonta and their relationship to the Edentata." Bulletin of the AMNH; vol. 9, article 6
  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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoryctidae