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Oodectes
Temporal range: 53.0–46.2 Ma early to middle Eocene
part of lower jaw of
Oodectes herpestoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Oodectes
Wortman, 1901
Type species
Oodectes herpestoides
Wortman, 1901
Species
  • O. herpestoides (Wortman, 1901)[1]
  • O. jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)[2]
  • O. proximus (Matthew, 1909)[3]
  • O. pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Oödectes (Wortman, 1901)[misspelling]
  • Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967)[5][6]
synonyms of species:
  • O. herpestoides:
    • Paeneprolimnocyon amissadomus (Guthrie, 1967)
    • Triacodon nanus (Marsh, 1872)[7]
  • O. jepseni:
    • Miacis jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)[8]
    • Paeneprolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967)
    • Prolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967)
  • O. pugnax:
    • Uintacyon pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)

Oodectes ("egg biter") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ J. L. Wortman (1901) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206
  2. ^ Daniel A. Guthrie (1967.) "The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming." Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 5:1-53
  3. ^ W. D. Matthew (1909) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
  4. ^ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
  5. ^ D. A. Guthrie (1967) "Paeneprolimnocyon, a new genus of early Eocene limnocyonid (Mammalia, Creodonta)." Journal of Paleontology 41:1285-1287
  6. ^ Giles T. MacIntyre & Daniel A. Guthrie (1979). "Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967), a junior synonym of Oodectes (Wortman, 1901)". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (4): 1034–1036. JSTOR 304127.
  7. ^ O. C. Marsh (1872.) "Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224
  8. ^ Ronald E. Heinrich (1997.) "Referral of Miacis jepseni Guthrie to Oödectes Wortman, and an assessment of phylogenetic relationships among early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)" Journal of Paleontology, Volume 71, Issue 6, pp. 1172 - 1178
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." 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 Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521355193