| Source Data | |
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| Rank | order (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Creodonta |
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Classification
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| Common Name | creodont |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Insectivora | stated with evidence | Cope, 1875 | | Creodonta | unranked clade | belongs to Bunotheria | stated without evidence | Cope, 1889 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Carnivora | stated without evidence | Flower and Lydekker, 1891 | | Creodonta | unranked clade | belongs to Bunotheria | stated without evidence | Cope, 1891 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Sarcobora | stated with evidence | Ameghino, 1897 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Carnivora | stated with evidence | Gadow, 1898 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Ferae | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Carnivora | stated without evidence | Lambe, 1908 | | Creodonta | unranked clade | belongs to Ferae | stated without evidence | Gregory, 1910 | | Creodonta | suborder | belongs to Carnivora | stated without evidence | Pilgrim, 1940 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Ferae | stated without evidence | McKenna, 1975 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Eutheria | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Eutheria | stated with evidence | Gunnell, 1998 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Ferae | stated without evidence | Lopatin, 2006 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Ferae | stated with evidence | Spaulding et al., 2009 | | Creodonta | order | belongs to Mammalia | stated without evidence | Bajpai et al., 2009 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 8 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 13.8 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Eutheria) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1875. On the supposed Carnivora of the Eocene of the Rocky Mountains. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (separate) |
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| Cope E. D. On the supposed Carnivora of the Eocene of the Rocky Mountains, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (separate), 1-4 |
| Cope E. D. Synopsis of the families of Vertebrata, The American Naturalist 23, 1-29 |
| Cope E. D. On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North West Territory: The species from the Oligocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cypress Hills, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3, 1-25 |
| Ameghino F. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)], Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18 4–9, 406-521 |
| Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Lambe L. M. (1908) The Vertebrata of the Oligocene of the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3 4, 1-65 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61444 |
| Gregory W. K. (1910) The orders of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 27, 1-524 |
| Pilgrim G.E. (1940) Middle Eocene Mammals from North-west India, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B 110, 127-152 |
| Dehm R., Oettingen-Spielberg T. (1958) Paläontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Tertiär von Pakistan, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathewmatisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 91, 1-54 |
| Savage R. J. G. (1965) Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10 8, 241-316 |
| McKenna M. C. (1975) Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia, Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York, 21-46 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Gunnell G. F. (1998) Creotonda, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals |
| Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405 |
| Bajpai S., Kapur V. V., et al (2009) Creodont and condylarth from the Cambay Shale (Early Eocene, 55-54MA), Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, Western India, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 54 1, 103-109 |
| Spaulding M., O'Leary M. A., et al (2009) Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: Increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution, PloS One 4 9, e7062 |
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