Herpetotheriidae
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Herpetotheriidae
Trouessart, 1879
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Herpetotheriidae is an extinct family of metatherians. Although sometimes placed in the living opossum family (Didelphidae, as a subfamily Herpetotheriinae), they may form the sister clade to all living marsupials.[1] Species of this family are generally reconstructed as terrestrial.[2] Fossils of herpetotheriids come from North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and perhaps South America. The oldest representative is Maastrichtidelphys from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Netherlands[3] and the youngest member is Amphiperatherium from the Middle Miocene of Europe.[4]
The family includes the following genera:[5]
- Amphiperatherium (Early Eocene to Middle Miocene, Europe; synonyms: Oxygomphius, Microtarsioides, Ceciliolemur)
- Asiadidelphis (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, Kazakhstan and Pakistan)[6]
- Copedelphys (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, North America)
- Entomacodon (Middle Eocene, North America; synonym: Centracodon)
- Herpetotherium (Early Eocene to Middle Miocene, North America)
- Maastrichtidelphys (Maastrichtian, Europe)[7]
- Nortedelphys (Lancian, North America)[8]
- Peratherium (Early Eocene to Early Miocene, Europe; Early Oligocene, Africa;[9] synonyms: Alacodon, Qatranitherium)
- Swaindelphys (Early Paleocene, North America)
The following genera have been placed in the family, but their placement is disputed or obsolete:
- Garatherium (Early Eocene of Algeria) – possibly an adapisoriculid eutherian[10]
- Indodelphis (Early Eocene of India) – originally referred to Peradectidae[11]
- Jaegeria (Early Eocene of India) – a bat[12]
- Rumiodon (Paleogene of Peru) – placement uncertain[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Asher et al. 2007, p. 318.
- ↑ Asher et al. 2007, p. 322.
- ↑ Martin et al. 2005, p. 497; Asher et al. 2007, p. 318.
- ↑ Mörs, von der Hocht & Wutzler 2000, p. 159.
- ↑ McKenna & Bell 1997, pp. 69–70.
- ↑ Crochet et al. 2007, pp. 634–635.
- ↑ Martin et al. 2005.
- ↑ Case, Goin & Woodburne 2005, pp. 473–482.
- ↑ Hooker et al. 2008.
- ↑ Hooker et al. 2008, p. 635.
- ↑ Crochet et al. 2007, p. 635.
- ↑ Smith et al. 2007, p. 1008.
- ↑ Goin & Candela 2004, p. 18.
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