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Thlaeodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4825428	https://www.gbif.org/species/4825428
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	209129	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=209129

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Palaeoryctidae : Thlaeodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolesta : Palaeoryctidae : Thlaeodon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Cimolesta
suborder	Palaeoryctida	Averianov 2003
family	Palaeoryctidae	Winge 1917
subfamily	Didelphodontinae	Simpson 1927
genus	Thlaeodon	Cope 1892

Scientific Name

Thlaeodon Cope, 1892

Name Published In

Amer. Natural., 26

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thlaeodon	genus	belongs to Marsupialia	stated without evidence	Cope, 1892
Thlaeodon	genus	belongs to Stagodontidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Thlaeodon	genus	belongs to Didelphodontinae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1927

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Diet

insectivore (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1892. On a new genus of Mammalia from the Laramie Formation. American Naturalist 26:758-762

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thlaeodon padanicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1892	Thlaeodon Cope p. 759
1902	Thlaeodon Hay p. 565
1927	Thlaeodon Simpson p. 122
1929	Thlaeodon Simpson pp. 117, 124-125

References

Cope E. D. On a new genus of Mammalia from the Laramie Formation, American Naturalist 26, 758-762

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Simpson G. G. (1927) Mesozoic Mammalia. VIII. Genera of Lance mammals other than multituberculates, American Journal of Science 14 80, 121-130 doi:10.2475/ajs.s5-14.80.121

Simpson G. G. (1929) American Mesozoic Mammalia, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3 1, 1-171

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Amer. Natural., 26 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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