Ernanodontidae
| Ernanodontidae Temporal range: middle to late Paleocene
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| Reconstruction of Ernanodon antelios | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
| Family: | †Ernanodontidae Ding, 1979[1] |
| Type genus | |
| †Ernanodon Ding, 1979
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| Genera | |
Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of myrmecophagous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in Asia from the middle to late Paleocene.[2][3][4]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
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See also
References
- ^ S. Ding (1979.) "A new edentate from the Paleocene of Guandong." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17:57-64
- ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Ernanodontidae
- ^ Jehle, Martin (2008). "Genera and species of Paleocene mammals". Paleocene Mammals.
- ^ Kondrashov, Peter; Agadjanian, Alexandre K. (2012). "A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 983–1001. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86059673.