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Extinct family of mammals

Conoryctinae
Temporal range: 63.8–60.9 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early to middle Paleocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Conoryctidae
Subfamily: Conoryctinae
Wortman, 1896
Type genus
Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Tribes

Conoryctinae ("cone diggers") is an extinct subfamily of taeniodonts from extinct family Conoryctidae, that lived in North America from the early to middle Paleocene.

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Subfamily: †Conoryctinae (Wortman, 1896)
    • Tribe: †Conoryctellini (Schoch, 1982)
      • Genus: †Conoryctella (Gazin, 1939)
        • Conoryctella dragonensis (Gazin, 1939)
        • Conoryctella pattersoni (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
    • Tribe: †Conoryctini (Wortman, 1896)
      • Genus: †Conoryctes (Cope, 1881)
        • Conoryctes comma (Cope, 1881)
      • Genus: †Huerfanodon (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • Huerfanodon heilprinianus (Cope, 1882)
        • Huerfanodon polecatensis (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • Huerfanodon torrejonius (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • Huerfanodon sp. (Simpson, 1937)

Phylogeny

Placentalia

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

Taeniodonta

Schowalteria

Stylinodontoidea

Onychodectidae

Conoryctidae

Eurodontinae

Conoryctinae
Conoryctellini
Conoryctella

Conoryctella dragonensis

Conoryctella pattersoni

Conoryctini

Huerfanodon heilprinianus

Huerfanodon torrejonius

Huerfanodon
 ? 

Huerfanodon sp. (USNM 9678)

Huerfanodon polecatensis

Conoryctes

Conoryctes comma

References

  1. Wortman, J. L. (1896.) "The Ganodonta and their relationship to the Edentata." Bulletin of the AMNH; vol. 9, article 6
  2. Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian; Dixon, Dougal (1988). "Early rooters and browsers". Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. Macmillan London Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-48699-3.
  3. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. Williamson, T. E.; Brusatte, S. L. (2013). Viriot, Laurent (ed.). "New Specimens of the Rare Taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Comments on the Phylogeny and Functional Morphology of "Archaic" Mammals". PLOS ONE. 8 (9): e75886. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...875886W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075886. PMC 3786969. PMID 24098738.
Eutheria
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Cynodontia
Mammalia
Eutheria
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Eutheria
Eutheria
Adapisoriculidae
Asioryctitheria
Cimolestidae
Didymoconidae
Horolodectidae
Leptictida
Gypsonictopidae
Pseudorhyncocyonidae
Leptictidae
Palaeoryctidae
Pantolesta
Paroxyclaenidae
Pantolestidae
Taeniodonta
Conoryctidae
Onychodectidae
Stylinodontidae
Tillodontia
Zalambdalestidae
Zhelestidae
Pantodonta
Placentalia
Leptictidium nasutum

Palaeosinopa didelphoides Wortmania otariidens

Zalambdalestes lechei
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