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]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Family: †Ernanodontidae (Ting, 1979)
    • Genus: †Asiabradypus (Nessov, 1987)
      • Asiabradypus incompositus (Nessov, 1987)
    • Genus: †Ernanodon (Ting, 1979)
      • Ernanodon antelios (Ting, 1979)

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of family Ernanodontidae are shown in the following cladogram:[4][5][6]

 Ferae 

Pan-Carnivora

 Pholidotamorpha 
 (Pholidota sensu lato) 
Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade

See also

References

  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.
  4. ^ Kenneth D. Rose (2008). "Palaeanodonta and Pholidota". In Janis, Christine M; Gunnell, Gregg F; Uhen, Mark D (eds.). 9 - Palaeanodonta and Pholidota. pp. 135–146. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511541438.010. ISBN 9780511541438.
  5. ^ Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (4). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media: 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID 1773698. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  6. ^ Kondrashov, Peter; Agadjanian, Alexandre K. (2012). "A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 983–1001. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86059673.