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Notharctus venticolus

Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

Taxonomy
Notharctus venticolus was named by Osborn (1902). Its type specimen is Am. Mus. No. 4715b, a partial skull (parts of upper and lower jaws), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Pelycodus jarrovii by Gingerich and Simons (1977); it was misspelled as Cantius venticolis by Gingerich and Haskin (1981), Beard (1988), Gunnell (1999), Gunnell (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1902Notharctus venticolus Osborn p. 195
1915Notharctus venticolus Matthew
1917Notharctus venticolus Granger and Gregory
1981Cantius venticolis Gingerich and Haskin
1988Notharctus venticolus Beard
1992Cantius antediluvius Kihm
1999Notharctus venticolis Gunnell
2002Notharctus venticolus Gunnell

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—Euarchonta
orderPrimates
suborderStrepsirrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorderAdapiformesHoffstetter 1977
superfamilyAdapoideaTrouessart 1879
familyNotharctidaeTrouessart 1879
genusNotharctus
speciesventicolus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Notharctus venticolus Osborn 1902
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Invalid names: Cantius antediluvius Kihm 1992 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealo
Diet: omnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:27:51
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:27:51
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Wasatchian to the top of the Bridgerian or 55.80000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lostcabinian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Notharctus venticolus (15915 15917 15945 16073 16076)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Cantius venticolus (15841 16070) Notharctus venticolus (15642 15662 15710 15902 15907 27268)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Notharctus venticolus (15837 16198)