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Periconodon ✝

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Periconodon is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in western Europe during the early middle Eocene.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827139	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827139
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40766	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40766

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Anaptomorphidae : Periconodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Notharctidae : Periconodon

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
order	Primates	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Adapiformes	Hoffstetter 1977
superfamily	Adapoidea	Trouessart 1879
family	Notharctidae	Trouessart 1879
subfamily	Cercamoniinae	Gingerich 1975
genus	Periconodon	Stehlin 1916

Scientific Name

Periconodon Stehlin, 1916

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Anaptomorphidae	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1940
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Adapidae	stated without evidence	Gingerich, 1980
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Omomyidae	stated with evidence	Tattersall and Schwartz, 1983
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Adapinae	stated without evidence	Hooker, 1986
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Cercamoniinae	stated without evidence	Franzen, 1994
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Adapidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Cercamoniinae	stated with evidence	Franzen, 2004
Periconodon	genus	belongs to Adapiformes	stated without evidence	Ni et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Primates)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hallelemur helleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelycodus helveticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Periconodon helleri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Periconodon helveticus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Periconodon huerzeleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Periconodon jaegeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Periconodon lemoinei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Periconodon Stehlin
1940	Periconodon Simpson p. 199
1980	Periconodon Gingerich p. 137
1983	Hallelemur Schwartz et al.
1983	Periconodon Tattersall and Schwartz p. 229
1986	Periconodon Hooker p. 267
1994	Periconodon Franzen p. 116
1997	Periconodon McKenna and Bell
2004	Periconodon Franzen p. 215
2016	Periconodon Ni et al.

References

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

Simpson G. G. (1940) Studies on the earliest primates, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77 4, 185-212

Tattersall I., Schwartz J. H. (1983) A reappraisal of the European Eocene primate Periconodon, Palaeontology 26 1, 227-230

Hooker J. J. (1986) Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39 4, 191-478

Franzen J. L. (1994) The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins, Anthropoid Origins, J. G. Fleagle and R. F. Kay (eds.), Plenum Press, 99-122

Franzen J. L. (2004) First fossil primates from Eckfeld Maar, Middle Eocene (Eifel, Germany), Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 97 2, 213-220

Ni X., Li Q., et al (2016) Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution, Science 352 6286, 673-677

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - 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

as per family - 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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