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Micropternodontidae
Taxonomy
Micropternodontidae was named as a family. It is not extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Micropternodontinae by Crochet (1974).
It was assigned to Palaeoryctoidea by Van Valen (1967); to Nyctitheriidae by Crochet (1974); to Soricomorpha by Carroll (1988); to Micropternodontoidea by Lopatin (2006); to Soricoidea by Gunnell et al. (2008); and to Lipotyphla by Korth et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the subfamily Micropternodontinae by Crochet (1974).
It was assigned to Palaeoryctoidea by Van Valen (1967); to Nyctitheriidae by Crochet (1974); to Soricomorpha by Carroll (1988); to Micropternodontoidea by Lopatin (2006); to Soricoidea by Gunnell et al. (2008); and to Lipotyphla by Korth et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1967 | Micropternodontidae Van Valen |
| 1974 | Micropternodontinae Crochet p. 122 |
| 1988 | Micropternodontidae Carroll |
| 2006 | Micropternodontidae Lopatin |
| 2008 | Micropternodontidae Gunnell et al. |
| 2022 | Micropternodontidae Korth et al. |
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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.
Fm. †Micropternodontidae
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G. †Clinopternodus Clark 1937
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†Clinopternodus gracilis Clark 1936
Invalid names: Clinodon Clark 1936 [synonym]
G. †Micropternodus Matthew 1903
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†Micropternodus borealis Matthew 1903
†Micropternodus montrosensis Ostrander 1983
†Micropternodus morgani Stirton and Rensberger 1964
†Micropternodus strophensis White 1954
Invalid names: Kentrogomphios White 1954 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Geringian or 55.80000 to 26.30000 Ma
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | Sinosinopa sinensis (174920) | |
| Uintan | USA (Utah) | Micropternodus sp. (16607) | |
| Duchesnean - Chadronian | USA (Montana) | Cryptoryctes sp. (16840) | |
| Chadronian | USA (South Dakota) | Clinopternodus gracilis (17007) | |
| Chadronian | USA (North Dakota) | Micropternodus borealis (16991) | |
| Chadronian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Cryptoryctes sp., Micropternodus sp. (16919) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Montana) | Cryptoryctes kayi (16935) Cryptoryctes kayi, Micropternodus borealis (16988 17010) Kentrogomphios strophensis, Talpidae indet. (16924) Micropternodus borealis (16959) Micropternodus sp., Cryptoryctes kayi (16990) Talpidae indet. (16925) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Wyoming) | Micropternodontidae indet. (16952) Micropternodus sp. (16920) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Nebraska) | Micropternodus borealis (16940 16941) Micropternodus borealis, Micropternodus montrosensis (16917 17014) Micropternodus montrosensis (17033) | |
| Early/Lower Chadronian | USA (Montana) | Micropternodus borealis (27245) | |
| Late/Upper Chadronian | USA (Montana) | Micropternodus borealis (17027) | |
| Late/Upper Chadronian - Orellan | USA (Nebraska) | Micropternodus borealis, Micropternodus montrosensis (230806) | |
| Orellan | USA (Wyoming) | Micropternodus sp. (17318) | |
| Geringian | USA (Oregon) | Micropternodus morgani (93078) |