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Uintatheriidae ✝

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Eobasileus sp.

Moffat County, Colorado, USA

Eobasileus sp.

Moffat County, Colorado, USA

Eobasileus sp.

Moffat County, Colorado, USA

Description

Uintatheriidae is a family of extinct ungulate mammals that includes Uintatherium. Uintatheres belong to the order Dinocerata, one of several extinct orders of primitive hoofed mammals that are sometimes united in the Condylarthra.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3240271	https://www.gbif.org/species/3240271
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40596	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40596

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Uintatheriidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dinocerata : Uintatheriidae

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	Amblypoda
suborder	Dinocerata
family	Uintatheriidae	Flower 1876

Scientific Name

Uintatheriidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Uintatheriidae	family	belongs to Amblypoda	stated without evidence	Flower and Lydekker, 1891
Uintatheriidae	family	subjective synonym of Tinoceridae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Uintatheriidae	family	belongs to Amblypoda	stated without evidence	Gregory, 1910
Uintatheriidae	family	belongs to Dinocerata	stated without evidence	Patterson, 1939
Uintatheriidae	family	belongs to Dinocerata	implied	Carroll, 1988
Uintatheriidae	family	belongs to Dinocerata	stated with evidence	Lucas and Schoch, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

58.7 - 55.8 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Dinocerata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gobiatheriinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		9	55.8 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Uintatheriinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		61	55.8 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Bathyopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Dinoceras genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eobasileus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Ganatherium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gobiatherium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	55.8 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Houyanotherium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	58.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Jiaoluotherium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	58.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Mongolotherium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Phenaceras ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Probathyopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		73	61.7 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Prodinoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	58.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Pyrodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Tetheopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Uintatherium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		34	55.8 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1876	Uintatheriidae Flower
1891	Uintatheriidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90
1910	Uintatheriidae Gregory p. 466
1929	Uintatheriidae Matthew et al.
1939	Uintatheriidae Patterson p. 373
1988	Uintatheriidae Carroll
1998	Uintatheriidae Lucas and Schoch p. 287

References

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

Gregory W. K. (1910) The orders of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 27, 1-524

Matthew W. D., Granger W., et al (1929) Additions to the fauna of the Gashato Formation of Mongolia, American Museum Novitates 376, 1-12

Patterson B. (1939) New Pantodonta and Dinocerata from the upper Paleocene of Western Colorado, Field Mueum of Natural History Geological Series 6 24, 351-384

Lucas S. G., Schoch R. M. (1998) Dinocerata, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1, 284-291

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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

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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