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Ptilodontoidea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39807	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39807

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Ptilodontoidea

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
suborder	Ptilodontoidea

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ptilodontoidea	suborder	belongs to Multituberculata	stated without evidence	Sloan and Van Valen, 1965
Ptilodontoidea	unranked clade	belongs to Cimolodonta	stated without evidence	McKenna, 1975
Ptilodontoidea	suborder	belongs to Multituberculata	stated without evidence	Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska, 1979
Ptilodontoidea	suborder	belongs to Multituberculata	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Ptilodontoidea	superfamily	belongs to Cimolodonta	stated with evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001
Ptilodontoidea	superfamily	belongs to Cimolodonta	stated without evidence	Scott et al., 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Ptilodontoidea)

Ecospace Comments

That ptilodontoids were omnivorous is supported by Wall and Krause (1992).

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cimolodontidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	167	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Ptilodontidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	158	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Neoliotomus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	52	61.7 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1965	Ptilodontoidea Sloan and Van Valen p. 221
1975	Ptilodontoidea McKenna p. 40
1979	Ptilodontoidea Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
1986	Ptilodontoidea Lillegraven and McKenna p. 17
1997	Ptilodontoidea McKenna and Bell
2001	Ptilodontoidea Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 418
2002	Ptilodontoidea Scott et al. p. 692
2004	Ptilodontoidea Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 255, 333

References

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

McKenna M. C. (1975) Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia, Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York, 21-46

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

Scott C. S., Fox R. C., et al (2002) New earliest Tiffanian (late Paleocene) mammals from Cochrane 2, southwestern Alberta, Canada, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47 4, 691-704

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

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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