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Neoplagiaulax ✝

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Neoplagiaulax is a mammal genus from the Paleocene of Europe and North America. In the case of the latter continent, there may possibly be some slightly earlier, Upper Cretaceous material too. It existed in the age immediately following the extinction of the last dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata, lying within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Neoplagiaulacidae.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831437	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831437
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39817	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39817

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Ptilodontidae : Neoplagiaulax

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Neoplagiaulacidae : Neoplagiaulax

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
family	Neoplagiaulacidae	Ameghino 1890
genus	Neoplagiaulax	Lemoine 1882

Scientific Name

Neoplagiaulax Lemoine, 1882

Name Published In

C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 95,

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Ptilodontidae	stated without evidence	Lemoine, 1882
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Plagiaulacinae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Ptilodontidae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1929
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Ectypodidae	stated with evidence	Sloan and Van Valen, 1965
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Neoplagiaulacidae	stated with evidence	Gazin, 1969
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Ptilodontidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Neoplagiaulax	genus	belongs to Neoplagiaulacidae	stated with evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

58.7 - 55.8 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Neoplagiaulacidae)

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/Neoplagiaulax

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ectypodus grangeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ectypodus hazeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ectypodus hunteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ectypodus macrotomeus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neoplagiaulax burgessi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neoplagiaulax donaldorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax jepi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax kremnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neoplagiaulax macintyrei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax mckennai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	61.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax nanophus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	63.3 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax paskapooensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Neoplagiaulax serrator ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Neoplagiaulax nelsoni Sloan, 1987	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Ptilodontidae : *Neoplagiaulax nelsoni*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Neoplagiaulax Lemoine
1902	Neoplagiaulax Hay p. 559
1929	Neoplagiaulax Simpson p. 11
1965	Neoplagiaulax Sloan and Van Valen p. 221
1969	Neoplagiaulax Gazin p. 4
1987	Neoplagiaulax nelsoni Sloan
1997	Neoplagiaulax McKenna and Bell
2001	Neoplagiaulax Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 418

References

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

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

Simpson G. G. (1929) American Mesozoic Mammalia, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3 1, 1-171

Sloan R. E., Van Valen L. (1965) Cretaceous mammals from Montana, Science 148 3667, 220-227

Gazin C. L. (1969) A new occurrence of Paleocene mammals in the Evanston Formation, southwestern Wyoming, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 2, 1-16

Sloan R. E. (1987) Paleocene and latest Cretaceous mammal ages, biozones, magnetozones, rates of sedimentation, and evolution, Geological Society of America Special Paper 209, 165-200

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

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

C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 95, - 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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rech. Ois. Foss., 2 - 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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