Anisonchanus
| Anisonchanus Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Periptychidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anisonchinae |
| Genus: | † Strand, 1928[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Anisonchanus sectorius | |
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Anisonchanus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived in North America during the Paleocene.
Taxonomy
In 1881, Edward Drinker Cope named the species Mioclaenus sectorius for jaws with teeth from the Puerco Formation of New Mexico.[2] He reassigned it to the new genus Anisonchus later the same year.[3] That name was preoccupied by the beetle Anisonchus, which was erected by Pierre F.M.A. Dejean in 1833.[4][a] In 1928, Embrik Strand proposed Anisonchanus as a replacement.[1]
Notes
References
- ^ a b Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
- ^ a b Cope, E.D. (1881a). "Mammalia of the lowest Eocene". The American Naturalist. 15 (10): 829–831. doi:10.1086/272937.
- ^ a b Cope, E.D. (1881b). "On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (109): 484–495. JSTOR 982794.
- ^ a b Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833–1836). Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris, FR: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 157. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8771.
- ^ Bousquet, Y.; Bouchard, P. (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.282.4401. PMC 3677338. PMID 23794836.