Epoicotheriidae
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| Artist reconstruction of Xenocranium pileorivale compared to the size of a human hand. | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
| Family: | †Epoicotheriidae Simpson, 1927[1] |
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| †Epoicotherium Simpson, 1927 | |
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Epoicotheriidae ("strange beasts") is an extinct paraphyletic family of insectivorous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the late Paleocene to early Oligocene.[2] Epoicotheriids were fossorial mammals. Late Eocene/early Oligocene genera were highly specialized animals that were convergent with the talpids, golden moles and marsupial mole in the structure of their skulls and forelimbs, and would have had a similar lifestyle as subterranean burrowers.[3]
Classification and phylogeny
[edit]Taxonomy
[edit]Epoicotheriidae was named by Simpson in 1927. It was assigned to the Palaeanodonta by Rose (1978)[4] and Carroll (1988).
Classification
[edit]- Family: †Epoicotheriidae (paraphyletic family) (Simpson, 1927)
- Genus: †Alocodontulum (Rose, 1978)
- †Alocodontulum atopum (Rose, 1977)
- Genus: †Amelotabes (Rose, 1978)
- †Amelotabes simpsoni (Rose, 1978)
- Genus: †Auroratherium (Tong & Wang, 1997)
- †Auroratherium sinense (Tong & Wang, 1997)
- Genus: †Dipassalus (Rose, 1991)
- †Dipassalus oryctes (Rose, 1991)
- Genus: †Tubulodon (Jepsen, 1932)
- †Tubulodon taylori (Jepsen, 1932)
- Subfamily: †Epoicotheriinae (paraphyletic subfamily) (Simpson, 1927)
- Genus: †Pentapassalus (Gazin, 1952)
- †Pentapassalus pearcei (Gazin, 1952)
- †Pentapassalus woodi (Guthrie, 1967)
- Genus: †Tetrapassalus (Simpson, 1959)
- †Tetrapassalus mckennai (Simpson, 1959)
- †Tetrapassalus proius (West, 1973)
- †Tetrapassalus sp. A [AMNH 10215] (Rose, 1978)
- †Tetrapassalus sp. B (Robinson, 1963)
- (unranked): †Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade
- Genus: †Epoicotherium (Simpson, 1927)
- †Epoicotherium unicum (Douglass, 1905)
- Genus: †Molaetherium (Storch & Rummel, 1999)
- †Molaetherium heissigi (Storch & Rummel, 1999)
- Genus: †Xenocranium (Colbert, 1942)
- †Xenocranium pileorivale (Colbert, 1942)
- Genus: †Epoicotherium (Simpson, 1927)
- Genus: †Pentapassalus (Gazin, 1952)
- Genus: †Alocodontulum (Rose, 1978)
Phylogenetic tree
[edit]The phylogenetic relationships of family Epoicotheriidae are shown in the following cladogram:[5][6][7]
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ G. G. Simpson (1927.) "In North American Oligocene edentate." Annals of Carnegie Museum 17 (2): 283-299
- ^ a b "Classification of the family Epoicotheriidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Kenneth D. Rose, Robert J. Emry (1983) "Extraordinary fossorial adaptations in the oligocene palaeanodonts Epoicotherium and Xenocranium (Mammalia)" Journal of Morphology 175(1):33 - 56
- ^ Rose, Kenneth D. (1978). "A New Paleocene Epoicotheriid (Mammalia), with Comments on the Palaeanodonta". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (3): 658–674. JSTOR 1303970.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
