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Ourayia ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827111	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827111
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40820	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40820

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Anaptomorphidae : Ourayia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Omomyidae : Ourayia

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
order	Primates	Linnaeus 1758
infraorder	Haplorhini
infraorder	Tarsiiformes	Gregory 1915
superfamily	Omomyoidea
family	Omomyidae	Gazin 1958
subfamily	Omomyinae	Trouessart 1879
tribe	Ourayiini	Gunnell 1995
genus	Ourayia	Gazin 1958

Scientific Name

Ourayia Gazin, 1958

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Collns 136

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ourayia	genus	belongs to Omomyidae	stated without evidence	Gazin, 1958
Ourayia	genus	belongs to Mytoniinae	stated with evidence	Robinson, 1968
Ourayia	genus	belongs to Omomyidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Ourayia	genus	belongs to Ourayiini	stated with evidence	Muldoon and Gunnell, 2002
Ourayia	genus	belongs to Utahiini	implied	Gunnell and Rose, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Omomyidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Omomyidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Omomyidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. L. Gazin. 1958. A review of the middle and upper Eocene primates of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 136(1):1-112

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Microsyops uintensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Mytonius hopsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1958	Ourayia Gazin
1968	Ourayia Robinson p. 320
1968	Mytonius Robinson p. 321
1976	Ourayia Szalay p. 275
1978	Mytonius Krishtalka
1978	Mytonius Krishtalka and Schwartz

Year	Name and Author
1982	Mytonius West
1995	Ourayia Gunnell p. 171
1997	Ourayia McKenna and Bell
2002	Ourayia Gunnell and Rose p. 47
2002	Ourayia Muldoon and Gunnell p. 504

References

Gazin C. L. (1958) A review of the middle and upper Eocene primates of North America, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 136 1, 1-112

Robinson P. (1968) The paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming, Annals of Carnegie Museum 39 19, 307-326

Szalay F. S. (1976) Systematics of the Omomyidae (Tarsiiformes, Primates) : taxonomy, phylogeny, and adaptations, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156 3

Krishtalka L. (1978) Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming\r\nPart 15. Review of the late Eocene primates from Wyoming and Utah,\r\nand the Plesitarsiiformes, Annals of Carnegie Museum 47 15, 335-360

West R. M. (1982) Fossil Mammals from the Lower Buck Hill Group, Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas: Marsupicarnivora, Primates, Taeniodonta, Condylarthra, Bunodont Artiodactyla, and Dinocerata, Pearce-Sellards Series 35, 1-20

Gunnell G. F. (1995) Omomyid primates (Tarsiiformes) from the Bridger Formation, middle Eocene, southern Green River Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Human Evolution 28

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Gunnell G. F., Rose K. D. (2002) Tarsiiformes: Evolutionary history and adaptation, The Primate Fossil Record, W.C. Hartwig (ed.), Cambridge University Press., 45-81

Muldoon K. M., Gunnell G. F. (2002) Omomyid primates (Tarsiiformes) from the Early Middle Eocene at South Pass, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Human Evolution 43 4, 479-511

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

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Smithson. Misc. Collns 136 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - 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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