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Domnina ✝

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Domnina can refer to:

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4830960	https://www.gbif.org/species/4830960
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40467	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40467

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : Domnina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Heterosoricidae : Domnina

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
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Heterosoricidae
genus	Domnina	Cope 1873

Scientific Name

Domnina Cope, 1873

Name Published In

Pal. Bull., No. 16

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Domnina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1873
Domnina	genus	belongs to Leptictidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Domnina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Johnson, 1966
Domnina	genus	belongs to Heterosoricinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Domnina	genus	belongs to Soricidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Domnina	genus	belongs to Heterosoricinae	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1873. Third Notice Of Extinct Vertebrata From The Tertiary of the Plains. Paleontological Bulletin 16:1-8

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Domnina dakotensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	30.8 Ma Oligocene	26.3 Ma Oligocene
Domnina gradata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	46.2 Ma Eocene	33.3 Ma Oligocene
Domnina greeni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	30.8 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene
Domnina parva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Domnina sagittariensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Domnina thompsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	40.4 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Miothen crassigenis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1873	Domnina Cope
1873	Miothen Cope
1873	Domnina Cope p. 1
1873	Miothen Cope p. 5
1894	Protosorex Scott
1902	Protosorex Hay p. 738

Year	Name and Author
1902	Domnina Hay p. 741
1966	Domnina Johnson p. 80
1967	Domnina Van Valen
1988	Domnina Carroll
2002	Domnina Lopatin

References

Cope E. D. Third Notice Of Extinct Vertebrata From The Tertiary of the Plains, Paleontological Bulletin 16, 1-8

Cope E. D. Synopsis of new Vertebrata from the Tertiary of Colorado obtained during the summer of 1873, Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (extract)

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Johnson G. D. (1966) Small mammals of the Middle Oligocene of the Big Badlands of South Dakota, Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences 45, 78-83

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

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

Lopatin A. V. (2002) The Earliest Shrew (Soricidae, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene of Mongolia, Paleontological Journal 36 6, 650-659

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

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

Pal. Bull., No. 16 - 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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