Metacheiromys

Metacheiromys
Temporal range: 50.0–46.2 Ma
↓
 early to middle Eocene
Skeleton of Metacheiromys marshi
Reconstruction of
Metacheiromys marshi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Palaeanodonta
Family: †Metacheiromyidae
Subfamily: †Metacheiromyinae
Genus: †Metacheiromys
Wortman, 1903
Type species
†Metacheiromys marshi
Wortman, 1903
Species
  • †M. dasypus (Osborn, 1904)[1]
  • †M. marshi (Wortman, 1903)[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • M. dasypus:
    • Metacheiromys osborni (Simpson, 1931)[3]
  • M. marshi:
    • Metacheiromys tatusia (Osborn, 1904)

Metacheiromys ("next to Cheiromys") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Metacheiromyinae within extinct paraphyletic family Metacheiromyidae in extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America (what is now Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene.

  1. ^ H. F. Osborn (1904) "An armadillo from the middle eocene (Bridger) of North America." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20(12):163-165
  2. ^ J. L. Wortman (1903) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum. Part II. Primates. Suborder Cheiromyoidea." The American Journal of Science, series 4 16:345-368
  3. ^ G. G. Simpson (1931) "Metacheiromys and the Edentata." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(6)