Wortmania

Wortmania
Temporal range: 64.7–63.8 Ma Early Paleocene
Wortmania otariidens
A - illustration of skull
B - illustration of skeleton
C - life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Taeniodonta
Family: †Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: †Wortmaniinae
Schoch, 1982
Genus: †Wortmania
Hay, 1899
Type species
†Wortmania otariidens
Cope, 1885
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Hemiganus (Wortman, 1897)
  • Robertschochia (Lucas, 2011)
  • Schochia (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)
synonyms of species:
  • W. otariidens:
    • Hemiganus otariidens (Cope, 1885)
    • Robertschochia sullivani (Lucas, 2011)
    • Schochia sullivani (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)

Wortmania ("Wotman's animal") is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene.

Phylogeny

Placentalia

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

†Palaeoryctida

†Ambilestes

†Procerberidae

†Alveugena

†Taeniodonta

†Schowalteria

†Stylinodontoidea
†Stylinodontidae

†Stylinodontinae

†Wortmaniinae
†Wortmania

†Wortmania otariidens

?

†Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana)

References

  1. ↑ Schoch, R. M. (1982.) "Phylogeny, classification and paleobiology of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria)." Third North Am. Paleontol. Conv. Proc. 2: 465-70
  2. ↑ O. P. Hay (1899). ""On the Names of Certain North American Fossil Vertebrates."". Science. 9 (225): 593–594. Bibcode:1899Sci.....9..593H. doi:10.1126/science.9.225.593. PMID 17772698.
  3. ↑ "Geology and Palaeontology". The American Naturalist. 19 (5): 492–497. 1885. doi:10.1086/273958.
  4. ↑ Lucas, Spencer G. (2011). "Robertschochia, a new name for the Paleocene mammal Schochia Lucas and Williamson, 1993". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1216–1217. Bibcode:2011JPal...85.1216L. doi:10.1666/11-006.1. S2CID 128401699.
  5. ↑ Lucas, Spencer G.; Williamson, Thomas E. (1993). "A New Taeniodont from the Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico". Journal of Mammalogy. 74 (1): 175–179. doi:10.2307/1381918. JSTOR 1381918.
  6. ↑ Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  7. ↑ Schoch, Robert M. (1986.) "Systematics, functional morphology and macroevolution of the extinct mammalian order Taeniodonta." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, (42).
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and T. E. Williamson (1998.) "Taeniodonta". In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals", Cambridge University Press, 703 pages
  10. ↑ 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.