Amynodontidae
Amynodontids Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Superfamily: | Rhinocerotoidea |
Family: | †Amynodontidae Scott & Osborn, 1883[1] |
Type genus | |
†Amynodon | |
Genera[2] | |
See text | |
Range of Amynodontidae based on fossil record |
Amynodontidae ("defensive tooth").
The Greek name of the family describes their tusks, derived from enlarged canine teeth. Odd-toed ungulates are herbivores, so these tusks would have been used either to deter or defend against predators (as suggested by the name) or perhaps in fights among males.[8]
Their fossils have been found in
Late Oligocene in South Asia (Pakistan).[9] The genus Metamynodon may have survived into the early Miocene.[citation needed
]
Taxonomy
†Amynodontidae
- Subfamily Amynodontinae
- Tribe Cadurcodontini
- Genus Cadurcodon[10]
- Genus Lushiamynodon[10]
- Genus Sharamynodon[10]
- Tribe Metamynodontini
- Genus Gigantamynodon[10]
- Genus Metamynodon
- Genus Paramynodon[10]
- Genus Zaisanamynodon[10]
- Tribe incertae sedis
- Tribe Cadurcodontini
- Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus Amynodontopsis[10]
- Genus Armania[11]
- Genus Cadurcotherium[10]
- Genus Caenolophus[12]
- Genus Hypsamynodon[10]
- Genus Megalamynodon[10]
- Genus Penetrigonias[13]
- Genus Procadurcodon[10]
- Genus Rostriamynodon[14]
- Genus Teilhardia[14]
References
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- ^ Marsh, O. C. (1877). "Notice of some new Vertebrate Fossils". The American Journal of Science and Arts. Ser. 3. 14 (81): 251–252.
- ^ "Glossary | Perissodactyl". research.amnh.org. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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- ^ "Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals" (PDF). rhinoresourcecenter.com. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ISBN 9780195060393.
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- ^ Huang, X.; Wang, J. (January 2001). "New materials of tapiroid and rhinocerotoid remains (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Middle Eocene of Yuanqu Basin, Central China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 39 (3): 197–203. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- doi:10.1139/e02-101.
- ^ S2CID 59363111.