Anisonchanus

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

Anisonchanus Temporal range: Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Periptychidae
Subfamily:	†Anisonchinae
Genus:	†Anisonchanus Strand, 1928[1]
Type species
†Anisonchanus sectorius (Cope, 1881a)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Anisonchus Cope, 1881b (preoccupied by Anisonchus Dejean, 1833)[3][4] Species synonymy Mioclaenus sectorius Cope, 1881a Anisonchus sectorius (Cope, 1881a)

Taxonomy

In 1881, Edward Drinker Cope named the species Mioclaenus sectorius for jaws with teeth from the Puerco Formation of New Mexico.^[2] He reassigned it to the new genus Anisonchus later the same year.^[3] That name was preoccupied by the beetle Anisonchus, which was erected by Pierre F.M.A. Dejean in 1833.^[4][a] In 1928, Embrik Strand proposed Anisonchanus as a replacement.^[1]

Notes

1. The publication date is based on Bousquet & Bouchard (2013).^[5]