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Lanthanotherium ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9460560	https://www.gbif.org/species/9460560
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40378	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40378

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : Lanthanotherium

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Erinaceidae : Lanthanotherium

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	Erinaceidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
genus	Lanthanotherium	Filhol 1888

Scientific Name

Lanthanotherium Filhol, 1888

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lanthanotherium	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated without evidence	Filhol, 1888
Lanthanotherium	genus	belongs to Echinosoricini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Lanthanotherium	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated with evidence	Rich, 1981
Lanthanotherium	genus	belongs to Galericinae	stated without evidence	Korth and Evander, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

8.70 - 5.33 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore, carnivore (based on Erinaceidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Ziegler. 2006. Insectivores (Lipotyphla) and bats (Chiroptera) from the Late Miocene of Austria. Annalen Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 107A:93-196

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lanthanotherium (Rubitherium) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Lanthanotherium dehmi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Lanthanotherium lactorensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lanthanotherium observatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Lanthanotherium piveteaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lanthanotherium robustum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lanthanotherium sanmigueli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	11.1 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene
Lanthanotherium sansaniensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.7 Ma Miocene
Lanthanotherium sawini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	20.4 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1888	Lanthanotherium Filhol
1888	Lantanotherium Filhol p. 23
1967	Lanthanotherium Van Valen
1981	Lanthanotherium Rich
1995	Lanthanotherium Gould p. 9
2006	Lantanotherium Lopatin
2006	Lantanotherium Ziegler
2015	Lantanotherium Prieto et al.
2016	Lanthanotherium Korth and Evander

References

Ziegler R. (2006) Insectivores (Lipotyphla) and bats (Chiroptera) from the Late Miocene of Austria, Annalen Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 107A, 93-196

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

Rich T. H. V. (1981) Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171 1, 1-116

Gould G. C. (1995) Hedgehog phylogeny (Mammalia, Erinaceidae); the reciprocal illumination of the quick and the dead, American Museum Novitates 3131, 1-65

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

Prieto J., Van Den Hoek Ostende L. W., et al (2015) The Middle Miocene insectivores from Hasznos (Hungary, Nógrád County), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95 3, 431-451 doi:10.1007/s12549-015-0193-0

Korth W. W., Evander R. L. (2016) Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska, Annals of Carnegie Museum 83 3, 219-254 doi:10.2992/007.083.0301

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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