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Adiantoides ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4834240	https://www.gbif.org/species/4834240
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	43507	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43507

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Macraucheniidae : Adiantoides

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Litopterna : Adianthidae : Adiantoides

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
order	Ungulata
suborder	Litopterna
family	Adianthidae	Ameghino 1891
subfamily	Indaleciinae	Bond and Vucetich 1983
genus	Adiantoides	Simpson & Minoprio 1949

Scientific Name

Adiantoides Simpson & Minoprio, 1949

Name Published In

Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1434

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Adianthinae	stated without evidence	Simpson and Minoprio, 1949
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Adianthidae	stated with evidence	Simpson et al., 1962
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Adianthidae	stated without evidence	Cifelli, 1983
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Indaleciinae	stated with evidence	Cifelli and Soria, 1983
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Adianthidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Adiantoides	genus	belongs to Indaleciidae	stated without evidence	López, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

42.0 - 36.0 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Litopterna)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adiantoides leali ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	42.0 Ma Eocene	42.0 Ma Eocene
Adiantoides magnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1949	Adiantoides Simpson and Minoprio
1962	Adiantoides Simpson et al.
1983	Adiantoides Cifelli
1983	Adiantoides Cifelli and Soria
1988	Adiantoides Carroll
2010	Adiantoides López

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Simpson G. G., Minoprio J. L. (1949) A new adianthine litoptern and associated mammals from a Deseadan faunule in Mendoza, Argentina, American Museum Novitates 1434, 1-27

Simpson G. G., Minoprio J. L., et al (1962) The mammalian fauna of the Divisadero Largo Formation, Mendoza, Argentina, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127 4, 239-293

Cifelli R. (1983) The origin and affinities of the South American Condylarthra and early Tertiary Litopterna (Mammalia), American Museum Novitates 2772, 1-49

Cifelli R. L., Soria M. F. (1983) Systematics of the Adianthidae (Litopterna, Mammalia), American Museum Novitates 2771, 1-25

López G. M. (2010) Divisaderan: Land Mammal Age or local fauna?, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 410-420

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1434 - 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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