Conoryctinae

Conoryctinae
Temporal range: Early to middle Paleocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: †Taeniodonta
Family: †Conoryctidae
Subfamily: †
Wortman, 1896[1]
Type genus
†Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Tribes

Conoryctinae ("cone diggers") is an extinct subfamily of taeniodonts from extinct family Conoryctidae, that lived in North America from the early to middle Paleocene.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Subfamily: †Conoryctinae (Wortman, 1896)
    • Tribe: †Conoryctellini (Schoch, 1982)
      • Genus: †Conoryctella (Gazin, 1939)
        • †Conoryctella dragonensis (Gazin, 1939)
        • †Conoryctella pattersoni (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
    • Tribe: †Conoryctini (Wortman, 1896)
      • Genus: †Conoryctes (Cope, 1881)
        • †Conoryctes comma (Cope, 1881)
      • Genus: †Huerfanodon(paraphyletic genus) (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • †Huerfanodon heilprinianus (Cope, 1882)
        • †Huerfanodon polecatensis (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • †Huerfanodon torrejonius (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • †Huerfanodon sp. [USNM 9678] (Simpson, 1937)

Phylogeny

Placentalia

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

†Palaeoryctida

†Ambilestes

†Procerberidae

†Alveugena

†Taeniodonta

†Schowalteria

†Stylinodontoidea

†Onychodectidae

†Conoryctidae

†Eurodontinae

†Conoryctinae
†Conoryctellini
†Conoryctella

†Conoryctella dragonensis

†Conoryctella pattersoni

†Conoryctini

†Huerfanodon heilprinianus

†Huerfanodon torrejonius

†Huerfanodon
?

†Huerfanodon sp. (USNM 9678)

†Huerfanodon polecatensis

†Conoryctes

†Conoryctes comma

References

  1. ^ Wortman, J. L. (1896.) "The Ganodonta and their relationship to the Edentata." Bulletin of the AMNH; vol. 9, article 6
  2. ^ Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian; Dixon, Dougal (1988). "Early rooters and browsers". Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. Macmillan London Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-48699-3.
  3. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
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