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Ocajila ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831129	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831129
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40384	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40384

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : Ocajila

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Erinaceidae : Ocajila

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
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
order	Lipotyphla	Haeckel 1866
family	Erinaceidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
genus	Ocajila	Macdonald 1963

Scientific Name

Ocajila Macdonald, 1963

Name Published In

Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 125

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ocajila	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated with evidence	Macdonald, 1963
Ocajila	genus	belongs to Echinosoricini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Ocajila	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Ocajila	genus	belongs to Galericini	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

24.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore, carnivore (based on Erinaceidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ocajila makpiyahe ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	33.9 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1963	Ocajila Macdonald p. 166
1967	Ocajila Van Valen
1997	Ocajila McKenna and Bell
2006	Ocajila Lopatin

References

Macdonald J. R. (1963) The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125 3, 139-238

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

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

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 125 - 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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