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Paratriisodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4833258	https://www.gbif.org/species/4833258
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42213	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42213

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Paratriisodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Arctocyonidae : Paratriisodon

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
family	Arctocyonidae	Murray 1866
genus	Paratriisodon	Chow 1959

Scientific Name

Paratriisodon Chow, 1959

Name Published In

Vertebr. palasiat. 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paratriisodon	genus	belongs to Arctocyonidae	stated with evidence	Chow, 1959
Paratriisodon	genus	belongs to Triisodontinae	stated without evidence	Zhou et al., 1995
Paratriisodon	genus	belongs to Arctocyonidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Paratriisodon	genus	belongs to Andrewsarchidae	stated without evidence	Gingerich, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Arctocyonidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. Chow. 1959. A new arctocyonid from the Upper Eocene of Lushih, Honan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3(3):133-138

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Paratriisodon henanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1959	Paratriisodon Chow
1995	Paratriisodon Zhou et al. p. 394
1997	Paratriisodon McKenna and Bell
1998	Paratriisodon Gingerich p. 427 figs. FIgure 1

References

Chow M. (1959) A new arctocyonid from the Upper Eocene of Lushih, Honan, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3 3, 133-138

Zhou X., Zhai R., et al (1995) Skull of a new mesonychid (Mammalia, Mesonychia) from the late Paleocene of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 2, 387-400

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

Gingerich P. D. (1998) Paleobiological perspectives on Mesonychia, Archaeoceti, and the origin of whales, Emergence of Whales: Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea, 423-449

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

Vertebr. palasiat. 3 - 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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