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Cimolomys ✝

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Cimolomys is a mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Cimolomyidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimolomys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831394	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831394
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39855	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39855

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolomyidae : Cimolomys

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Cimolomyidae : Cimolomys

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
-	Allotheria
order	Multituberculata	Cope 1884
suborder	Cimolodonta
family	Cimolomyidae	Sloan and Van Valen 1965
genus	Cimolomys	Marsh 1889

Scientific Name

Cimolomys Marsh, 1889

Name Published In

Amer. J. Sci., (3) 38

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1889
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Tritylodontidae	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1889
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Plagiaulacinae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Ptilodontidae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1929
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	stated with evidence	Sloan and Van Valen, 1965
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	stated without evidence	Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska, 1979
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	stated with evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001
Cimolomys	genus	belongs to Cimolomyidae	stated without evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Multituberculata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. C. Marsh. 1889. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. American Journal of Science 38:81-92

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimolomys

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cimolomys clarki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cimolomys gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		35	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cimolomys milliensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cimolomys parvus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cimolomys trochuus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Cimolomys Marsh
1902	Cimolomys Hay p. 559
1929	Cimolomys Simpson pp. 107-114
1954	Cimolomys Wood and Ormsbee p. 27
1965	Cimolomys Sloan and Van Valen p. 222
1979	Cimolomys Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 102

Year	Name and Author
1986	Cimolomys Lillegraven and McKenna p. 19
1997	Cimolomys McKenna and Bell
2001	Cimolomys Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 419
2004	Cimolomys Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 255-328 fig. 8.41A
2010	Cimolomys Wilson et al. p. 508

References

Marsh O. C. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia, American Journal of Science 38, 81-92

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

Wood A. E., Ormsbee J. B. S. (1954) Notes on mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming, Journal of Paleontology 28 1, 26-31

Sloan R. E., Van Valen L. (1965) Cretaceous mammals from Montana, Science 148 3667, 220-227

Clemens W. A., Kielan-Jaworowska Z. (1979) Multituberculata, Mesozoic Mammals: the first two-thirds of mammalian history, 99-149

Lillegraven J. A., McKenna M. C. (1986) Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages", American Museum Novitates 2840, 1-68

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

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Hurum J. H. (2001) Phylogeny and systematics of multituberculate mammals, Palaeontology 44 3, 389-429

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Cifelli R. L., et al (2004) Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: Origins, evolution, and structure, Columbia University Press, New York, 1-630

Wilson G. P., Dechesne M., et al (2010) New latest Cretaceous mammals from northeastern Colorado with biochronologic and biogeographic implications, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 2, 499-520

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

Amer. J. Sci., (3) 38 - 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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