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Taeniodonta

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Taeniodonta
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Taeniodonta ("banded teeth") is an extinct order of eutherian mammals, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to the middle Eocene.[3][4][5]

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Taeniodonts evolved quickly into highly specialized digging animals, and varied greatly in size, from rat-sized to species as large as a bear. Later species developed prominent front teeth and huge claws for digging and rooting. Some genera, like Stylinodon, had ever-growing teeth.[6] The scarcity of taeniodont fossils can be explained by the fact that these animals probably lived in dry or arid climates unconductive to fossilization.

According to 2022 studies of Bertrand, O. C. and Sarah L. Shelley, taeniodonts are identified to be a basal placental mammal.[7][8] Genera Alveugena, Ambilestes and Procerberus are the immediate outgroups to Taeniodonta,[9] with genus Alveugena classified as a sister taxon to this order.

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Taxonomy and phylogeny

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Taxonomy

From Thomas E. Williamson and Stephen L. Brusatte (2013):[10]

  • Order: †Taeniodonta (Cope, 1876)
    • Genus: †Schowalteria (Fox & Naylor, 2003)
      • Schowalteria clemensi (Fox & Naylor, 2003)
    • Family: †Conoryctidae (Wortman, 1896)
      • Subfamily: †Conoryctinae (Wortman, 1896)
        • Tribe: †Conoryctellini (Schoch, 1982)
          • Genus: †Conoryctella (Gazin, 1939)
            • Conoryctella dragonensis (Gazin, 1939)
            • Conoryctella pattersoni (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
        • Tribe: †Conoryctini (Wortman, 1896)
          • Genus: †Conoryctes (Cope, 1881)
            • Conoryctes comma (Cope, 1881)
          • Genus: †Huerfanodon(paraphyletic genus) (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon heilprinianus (Cope, 1882)
            • Huerfanodon polecatensis (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon torrejonius (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)
            • Huerfanodon sp. [USNM 9678] (Simpson, 1937)
      • Subfamily: †Eurodontinae (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
        • Genus: †Eurodon (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
          • Eurodon silveirinhensis (Estavis & Russel, 1992)
    • Family: †Onychodectidae (Winge, 1917)
      • Genus: †Onychodectes (Cope, 1888)
        • Onychodectes tisonensis (Cope, 1888)
          • Onychodectes tisonensis rarus (Osborn & Earle, 1895)
          • Onychodectes tisonensis tisonensis (Cope, 1888)
    • Superfamily: †Stylinodontoidea (Marsh, 1875)
      • Family: †Stylinodontidae (Marsh, 1875)
        • Subfamily: †Stylinodontinae (Marsh, 1875)
          • Tribe: †Ectoganini (Cope, 1876)
            • Genus: †Ectoganus (Cope, 1874)
              • Ectoganus bighornensis (Schoch, 1981)
              • Ectoganus copei (Schoch, 1981)
              • Ectoganus gliriformis (Cope, 1874)
              • Ectoganus lobdelli (Simpson, 1929)
          • Tribe: †Psittacotheriini (Schoch, 1982)
            • Genus: †Psittacotherium (Cope, 1882)
              • Psittacotherium multifragum (Cope, 1882)
          • Tribe: †Stylinodontini (Marsh, 1875)
            • Genus: †Stylinodon (Marsh, 1874)
              • Stylinodon mirus (Marsh, 1874)
        • Subfamily: †Wortmaniinae (Schoch, 1982)
          • Genus: †Wortmania (Hay, 1899)
            • Wortmania otariidens (Cope 1885)
            • Wortmania sp. [Garfield County, Montana] (Clemens, 2013)

Phylogeny

Placentalia

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberinae

Alveugena

Taeniodonta
Schowalteria

Schowalteria clemensi

Conoryctidae
Conoryctinae
Conoryctini
Conoryctes

Conoryctes comma

Huerfanodon polecatensis

Huerfanodon heilprinianus

Huerfanodon

Huerfanodon torrejonius

?

Huerfanodon sp. (USNM 9678)

Conoryctellini
Conoryctella

Conoryctella dragonensis

Conoryctella pattersoni

Eurodontinae
Eurodon

Eurodon silveirinhensis

Onychodectidae
Onychodectes
Onychodectes tisonensis

Onychodectes tisonensis rarus

Onychodectes tisonensis tisonensis

Stylinodontoidea
Stylinodontidae
Wortmaniinae
Wortmania

Wortmania otariidens

?

Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana)

Stylinodontinae
Psittacotheriini
Psittacotherium

Psittacotherium multifragum

Stylinodontini
Stylinodon

Stylinodon mirus

Ectoganini
Ectoganus

Ectoganus bighornensis

Ectoganus copei

Ectoganus gliriformis

Ectoganus lobdelli

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