Anisonchanus

Anisonchanus
Temporal range: Paleocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: †Periptychidae
Subfamily: †Anisonchinae
Genus: †Anisonchanus
Strand, 1928
Type species
†Anisonchanus sectorius
(Cope, 1881a)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
    • Mioclaenus sectorius
      Cope, 1881a
    • Anisonchus sectorius
      (Cope, 1881a)

Anisonchanus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived in North America during the Paleocene.

Taxonomy

In 1881, Edward Drinker Cope named the species Mioclaenus sectorius for jaws with teeth from the Puerco Formation of New Mexico. He reassigned it to the new genus Anisonchus later the same year. That name was preoccupied by the beetle Anisonchus, which was erected by Pierre F.M.A. Dejean in 1833. In 1928, Embrik Strand proposed Anisonchanus as a replacement.

Notes

  1. ↑ The publication date is based on Bousquet & Bouchard (2013).

References

  1. 1 2 Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
  2. 1 2 Cope, E.D. (1881a). "Mammalia of the lowest Eocene". The American Naturalist. 15 (10): 829–831. doi:10.1086/272937.
  3. 1 2 Cope, E.D. (1881b). "On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (109): 484–495. JSTOR 982794.
  4. 1 2 Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833–1836). Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris, FR: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 157. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8771.
  5. ↑ Bousquet, Y.; Bouchard, P. (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.282.4401. PMC 3677338. PMID 23794836.