Oodectes
Oodectes ("egg biter") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from early to middle Eocene.[9][10]
Oodectes Temporal range: early to middle Eocene | |
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part of lower jaw of Oodectes herpestoides | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Oodectes Wortman, 1901 |
Type species | |
†Oodectes herpestoides Wortman, 1901 | |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
Phylogeny
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Oodectes are shown in the following cladogram:[11][12][13][14]
Carnivoramorpha |
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†Gracilocyon/Oodectes clade †Vulpavus clade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Carnivora [sensu lato]) |
See also
References
- J. L. Wortman (1901) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206
- Daniel A. Guthrie (1967.) "The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming." Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 5:1-53
- W. D. Matthew (1909) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
- J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
- D. A. Guthrie (1967) "Paeneprolimnocyon, a new genus of early Eocene limnocyonid (Mammalia, Creodonta)." Journal of Paleontology 41:1285-1287
- Giles T. MacIntyre & Daniel A. Guthrie (1979). "Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967), a junior synonym of Oodectes (Wortman, 1901)". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (4): 1034–1036. JSTOR 304127.
- O. C. Marsh (1872.) "Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224
- Ronald E. Heinrich (1997.) "Referral of Miacis jepseni Guthrie to Oödectes Wortman, and an assessment of phylogenetic relationships among early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)" Journal of Paleontology, Volume 71, Issue 6, pp. 1172 - 1178
- 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.
- J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521355193
- Flynn, John J.; Finarelli, John A.; Spaulding, Michelle (2010). "Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations". In Goswami, Anjali; Friscia, Anthony (eds.). Carnivoran evolution. New views on phylogeny, form and function. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–63. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139193436.003. ISBN 9781139193436.
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