Wortmania

Genus of extinct mammal from the Paleocene

Wortmania
Temporal range: 64.7–63.8 Ma
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Wortmania otariidens
A - illustration of skull
B - illustration of skeleton
C - life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: Wortmaniinae
Schoch, 1982[2]
Genus: Wortmania
Hay, 1899[1]
Type species
Wortmania otariidens
Cope, 1885[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Hemiganus (Wortman, 1897)
  • Robertschochia (Lucas, 2011)[4]
  • Schochia (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)[5]
synonyms of species:
  • W. otariidens:
    • Hemiganus otariidens (Cope, 1885)
    • Robertschochia sullivani (Lucas, 2011)
    • Schochia sullivani (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)

Wortmania ("Wotman's animal")[6] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene.[7][8][9][10]

Phylogeny

 Placentalia 

Atlantogenata

Boreoeutheria

Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

 †Taeniodonta 

Schowalteria

Onychodectidae

Conoryctidae

 †Stylinodontidae 

Stylinodontinae

 †Wortmaniinae 
 †Wortmania 

Wortmania otariidens

References

  1. ^ O. P. Hay (1899). ""On the Names of Certain North American Fossil Vertebrates."". Science. 9 (225): 593–594.
  2. ^ Schoch, R. M. (1982.) "Phylogeny, classification and paleobiology of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria)." Third North Am. Paleontol. Conv. Proc. 2: 465-70
  3. ^ E. D. Cope (1885.) "The mammalian genus Hemiganus." American Naturalist 19:492-493
  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. 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.
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Leptictidium nasutum

Palaeosinopa didelphoides Wortmania otariidens

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Wortmania
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