Orthaspidotherium
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Orthaspidotherium was a European Paleocene genus of early herbivorous mammals of the family Pleuraspidotheriidae.[1]
Classification
It was included in the family Meniscotheriidae by Teilhard de Chardin in 1921-1922 and was subsequently separated into the subfamily Pleuraspidotheriinae,[2] before being placed in the family Phenacodontidae by Williamson and Lucas (1992).[1] However, Zack et al. (2005) considered the subfamily Pleuraspidotheriinae to belong in Hyopsodontidae.[3] The first complete skull, of Orthaspidotherium edwardsi, was described by Ladeveze et al. (2010), who demonstrated that Pleuraspidotheriidae was a distinct family in its own right, more closely related to artiodactyls than to perissodactyls or phenacodontids.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b Williamson, Thomas E.; Lucas, Spencer G. Meniscotherium (Mammalia, "Condylarthra") from the Paleocene-Eocene of Western North America: Bulletin 1. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. p. 49. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution 1-698
- ^ S. P. Zack, T. A. Penkrot, D. W. Krause and M. C. Maas. 2005. A new apheliscine "condylarth" mammal from the late Paleocene of Montana and Alberta and the phylogeny of "hyopsodontids". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(4):809-830.
- ^ Ladevèze, Sandrine; Missiaen, Pieter; Smith, Thierry (1 January 2010). "First Skull Of Orthaspidotherium Edwardsi (Mammalia, "Condylarthra") From The Late Paleocene Of Berru (France) And Phylogenetic Affinities Of The Enigmatic European Family Pleuraspidotheriidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1559–1578. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501440. JSTOR 40864368.
- ^ Smith, Thierry; Quesnel, Florence; Plöeg, Gaël De; Franceschi, Dario De; Métais, Grégoire; Bast, Eric De; Solé, Floréal; Folie, Annelise; Boura, Anaïs; Claude, Julien; Dupuis, Christian; Gagnaison, Cyril; Iakovleva, Alina; Martin, Jeremy; Maubert, François; Prieur, Judicaël; Roche, Emile; Storme, Jean-Yves; Thomas, Romain; Tong, Haiyan; Yans, Johan; Buffetaut, Eric (29 January 2014). "First Clarkforkian Equivalent Land Mammal Age in the Latest Paleocene Basal Sparnacian Facies of Europe: Fauna, Flora, Paleoenvironment and (Bio)stratigraphy". PLOS ONE. 9 (1): e86229. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086229. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3906055. PMID 24489703. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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