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Conoryctidae
Temporal range: 63.8–55.2 Ma Early Paleocene - Early Eocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Conoryctidae
Wortman, 1896[1]
Type genus
Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Conoryctinae (Schlosser, 1911)[2]
  • Conoryctini (Winge, 1917)[3]

Conoryctidae ("cone diggers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America and Europe from the early Paleocene to early Eocene.[4][5][6]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

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Taxonomy

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  • 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)

Phylogeny

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Placentalia

References

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