Wortmania

Wortmania
Temporal range: 64.7–63.8 Ma
↓
 Early Paleocene
Wortmania otariidens
A - illustration of skull
B - illustration of skeleton
C - life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: †Taeniodonta
Superfamily: †Stylinodontoidea
Family: †Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: †Wortmaniinae
Schoch, 1982[2]
Genus: †Wortmania
Hay, 1899[1]
Type species
†Wortmania otariidens
Cope, 1885[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Hemiganus (Wortman, 1897)
  • Robertschochia (Lucas, 2011)[4]
  • Schochia (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)[5]
synonyms of species:
  • W. otariidens:
    • Hemiganus otariidens (Cope, 1885)
    • Robertschochia sullivani (Lucas, 2011)
    • Schochia sullivani (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)

Wortmania ("Wotman's animal")[6] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene.[7][8][9][10]

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  10. ^ 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.