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Sparnotheriodontidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)3240529https://www.gbif.org/species/3240529
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)58786https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58786
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Sparnotheriodontidae
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Litopterna : Sparnotheriodontidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
subclassTribosphenida
infraclassEutheria
orderUngulata
suborderLitopterna
familySparnotheriodontidaeSoria 1980
Scientific NameSparnotheriodontidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sparnotheriodontidaefamilybelongs to Notoungulatastated without evidenceSoria, 1980
Sparnotheriodontidaefamilybelongs to Didolodontoideastated without evidenceCifelli, 1983
Sparnotheriodontidaefamilybelongs to Eolitopternastated without evidenceBond et al., 2006
Sparnotheriodontidaefamilybelongs to Litopternastated without evidenceLópez, 2010
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)8
First Recorded Appearance56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene
Last Recorded Appearance38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Eutheria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietherbivore (based on Litopterna)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)M. F. Soria. 1980. Una nueva y problemática forma de ungulado del Casamayorense. Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología II:193-203

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Notiolofos ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		356.0 Ma
Paleocene		56.0 Ma
Paleocene
Notolophus ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		856.0 Ma
Paleocene		38.0 Ma
Eocene
Sparnotheriodon ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		148.6 Ma
Eocene		48.6 Ma
Eocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1980Sparnotheriodontidae Soria pp. 194, 198-200
1983Sparnotheriodontidae Cifelli
2006Sparnotheriodontidae Bond et al.
2010Sparnotheriodontidae López

References

Soria M. F. (1980) Una nueva y problemática forma de ungulado del Casamayorense, Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología II, 193-203
Cifelli R. (1983) The origin and affinities of the South American Condylarthra and early Tertiary Litopterna (Mammalia), American Museum Novitates 2772, 1-49
Bond M., Reguero M. A., et al (2006) A new 'South American ungulate' (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Eocene of the Antarctic Peninsula, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 258, 163-176
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
The Paleobiology Database (2010 version). - 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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