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Taeniolabis ("banded incisor") is a genus of extinct multituberculate mammal from the Paleocene of North America.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831386	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831386
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39835	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39835

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Taeniolabididae : Taeniolabis

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Taeniolabididae : Taeniolabis

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
-	Allotheria
order	Multituberculata	Cope 1884
suborder	Cimolodonta
superfamily	Taeniolabidoidea
family	Taeniolabididae	Granger and Simpson 1929
genus	Taeniolabis	Cope 1882

Scientific Name

Taeniolabis Cope, 1882

Name Published In

American Naturalist, 16: 604

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Taeniolabis	genus	belongs to Taeniolabididae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1882
Taeniolabis	genus	belongs to Polymastodontinae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Taeniolabis	genus	belongs to Taeniolabididae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Taeniolabis	genus	belongs to Taeniolabididae	stated with evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 63.3 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 63.3 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Taeniolabididae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Polymastodon attenuatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Taeniolabis lamberti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Taeniolabis scalper ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Taeniolabis sulcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Taeniolabis taoensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Polymastodon Cope
1882	Taeniolabis Cope
1882	Polymastodon Cope p. 684
1894	Polymastodon Lydekker p. 283
1902	Polymastodon Hay p. 562
1902	Taeniolabis Hay p. 562
1997	Taeniolabis McKenna and Bell
2001	Taeniolabis Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 418
2016	Taeniolabis Mao et al.
2016	Taeniolabis Williamson et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Cope E. D. New marsupials from the Puerco Eocene, The American Naturalist 16, 684-686

Lydekker R. , A Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata, 1-302

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

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

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Hurum J. H. (2001) Phylogeny and systematics of multituberculate mammals, Palaeontology 44 3, 389-429

Mao F.-Y., Wang Y.-Q., et al (2016) New specimens of the multituberculate mammalian Sphenopsalis from the Paleocene of Inner Mongolia, China: implications for phylogeny and biology of taeniolabidoid multituberculates, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 2, 429-454 doi:dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00117.2014

Williamson T. E., Brusatte S. L., et al (2016) A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177, 183-208 doi:10.1111/zoj.12336

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1516 Taeniolabis Cope, 1882 (Mammalia, Multituberculata): Polymastodon taoensis Cope, 1882 designated as the type species.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45(3), 247 (1988) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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

Amer. Natural., 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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