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Domninoides ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831045	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831045
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40404	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40404

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : Domninoides

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Talpidae : Domninoides

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
order	Lipotyphla	Haeckel 1866
family	Talpidae
genus	Domninoides	Green 1956

Scientific Name

Domninoides Green, 1956

Name Published In

J. Paleont. 30

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Domninoides	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated with evidence	Green, 1956
Domninoides	genus	belongs to Urotrichini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Domninoides	genus	belongs to Scalopini	stated with evidence	Freeman, 1979
Domninoides	genus	belongs to Talpidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Domninoides	genus	belongs to Talpidae	stated with evidence	May, 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 13.6 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Talpidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. Green. 1956. The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):146-169

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Domninoides hessei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Domninoides knoxjonesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Domninoides mimicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Domninoides riparensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Domninoides santafei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Domninoides valentinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Talpa platybrachys ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1956	Domninoides Green
1967	Domninoides Van Valen
1979	Domninoides Freeman p. 2
1988	Domninoides Carroll
2019	Domninoides May

References

Green M. (1956) The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota, Journal of Paleontology 30 1, 146-169

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

Freeman P. W. (1979) Redescription and comparison of a highly fossorial mole, Domninoides mimicus (Insectivora, Talpidae), from the Clarendonian, American Museum Novitates 2667, 1-16

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

May S. R. (2019) The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA, Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.15, 1-129 doi:10.26879/929

J. Paleont. 30 - 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

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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