Isotemnidae
Appearance
| Isotemnidae | |
|---|---|
| Thomashuxleya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Suborder: | †Toxodontia |
| Family: | †Isotemnidae Ameghino 1897 |
| Genera | |
Isotemnidae is a paraphyletic extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Early Eocene (Itaboraian) to Middle Miocene (Honda Group, Laventan) of South America.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Castro, L. O. R.; Bergqvist, L. P.; García-López, D. A. (2025). "First record of Toxodontia for the Itaboraí Basin (Paleogene, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and comments on the evolution of basal toxodonts (Pan-Perissodactyla, Mammalia)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32 (3) 34. doi:10.1007/s10914-025-09770-7.
- ↑ Fernández, M.; Zimicz, A. N.; Troyelli, A.; Chornogubsky, L.; Bond, M.; Arnal, M.; Fernicola, J. C. (2025). "Maizotemnus archaeios gen. nov. sp. nov. the oldest Toxodontia (Mammalia, Panperissodactyla, Notoungulata) and the first South American mammal from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (Maíz Gordo formation, Salta Province, Argentina)". Historical Biology. 38 (3): 786–814. doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2531581.
- ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
Further reading
[edit]- Goin, F. J.; Candela, A.M.; Abello, M.A.; Oliveira, E.V. (2009), "Earliest South American paucituberculatans and their significance in the understanding of 'pseudodiprotodont' marsupial radiations", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 155 (4): 867–884, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00471.x, retrieved 2019-02-15
- M. McKenna. 1956. Survival of primitive Notoungulates and Condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Science 254:736-743