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Essonodon browni ✝

Description

Essonodon is a mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata and lived towards the end of the "age of the dinosaurs." It is within the suborder Cimolodonta and perhaps the family Cimolomyidae.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essonodon_browni, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4968614https://www.gbif.org/species/4968614
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)46330https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=46330
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Eucosmodontidae : Essonodon : Essonodon browni
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Cimolomyidae : Essonodon : Essonodon browni
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
-Allotheria
orderMultituberculataCope 1884
suborderCimolodonta
familyCimolomyidaeSloan and Van Valen 1965
genusEssonodonSimpson 1927
speciesEssonodon browniSimpson 1927
Generic NameEssonodon
Scientific NameEssonodon browni Simpson, 1927
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Essonodon brownispeciesbelongs to Essonodonstated with evidenceSimpson, 1927
Essonodon brownispeciesbelongs to Essonodonstated without evidenceSimpson, 1929
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Mammalia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietherbivore (based on Multituberculata)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)G. G. Simpson. 1927. Mammalian Fauna of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. American Museum Novitates 267:1-8
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essonodon_browni

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1927Essonodon browni Simpson
1929Essonodon browni Simpson p. 114
1979Essonodon browni Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 102
2004Essonodon browni Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 255, 329
2013Essonodon browni Donohue et al. p. 685

References

Simpson G. G. (1927) Mammalian Fauna of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, American Museum Novitates 267, 1-8
Simpson G. G. (1929) American Mesozoic Mammalia, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3 1, 1-171
Clemens W. A., Kielan-Jaworowska Z. (1979) Multituberculata, Mesozoic Mammals: the first two-thirds of mammalian history, 99-149
Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Cifelli R. L., et al (2004) Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: Origins, evolution, and structure, Columbia University Press, New York, 1-630
Donohue S. L., Wilson G. P., et al (2013) Latest Cretaceous multituberculates of the Black Butte Station local fauna (Lance Formation, southwestern Wyoming), with implications for compositional differences among mammalian local faunas of the Western Interior, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 3, 677-695 doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.745416
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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