Ernanodontidae

Ernanodontidae
Temporal range: 62.22–56.0 Ma middle to late Paleocene
Reconstruction of Ernanodon antelios
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Palaeanodonta
Family: Ernanodontidae
Ding, 1979[1]
Type genus
Ernanodon
Ding, 1979
Genera

Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of myrmecophagous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in Asia from the middle to late Paleocene.[2][3]

  1. ^ S. Ding (1979.) "A new edentate from the Paleocene of Guandong." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17:57-64
  2. ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Ernanodontidae
  3. ^ Jehle, Martin (2008). "Genera and species of Paleocene mammals". Paleocene Mammals.