Stylinodontidae

Stylinodontidae
Temporal range: 64.7–39.7 Ma Early Paleocene - Middle Eocene
species from family Stylinodontidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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
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]

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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.