Tapiroidea
| Tapiroidea Temporal range: Early Eocene to Recent | |
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| Brazilian tapir | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Clade: | Tapiromorpha |
| Suborder: | Ceratomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tapiroidea Gill, 1872 |
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Incertae sedis genera | |
Tapiroidea is a superfamily of perissodactyls which includes the modern tapirs and their extinct relatives. Taxonomically, they are placed in suborder Ceratomorpha along with the rhinoceros superfamily, Rhinocerotoidea. The first tapiroids appeared in the Early Eocene.[1][2]
Out of the three extant perissodactyl lineages, tapirs have the poorest and least well understood fossil record.[1] Based on the fossils known, tapiroids appear to have been relatively conservative, unlike both equoids and rhinocerotoids.[1] Both ancient and modern tapirs appear to have inhabited closed-canopy warm forests.[1]
Tapiridae first appeared during the early Oligocene in Europe, and may have originated from the tapiroid family Helaletidae.[2][3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 MacLaren, Jamie A.; Holbrook, Luke T. (2024), Melletti, Mario; Reyna-Hurtado, Rafael; Medici, Patrícia (eds.), "The Fossil Record of Tapirs", Tapirs of the World, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 25–59, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-65311-7_2, ISBN 978-3-031-65310-0
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - 1 2 Bai, Bin; Meng, Jin; Mao, Fang-Yuan; Zhang, Zhao-Qun; Wang, Yuan-Qing (2019-11-08). Smith, Thierry (ed.). "A new early Eocene deperetellid tapiroid illuminates the origin of Deperetellidae and the pattern of premolar molarization in Perissodactyla". PLOS ONE. 14 (11) e0225045. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1425045B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225045. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6839866. PMID 31703104.
- ↑ Scherler, Laureline; Becker, Damien; Berger, Jean-Pierre (2011-03-17). "Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Swiss Molasse Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene transition". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (2): 479–496. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..479S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.550360. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 73527662.
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