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Pediomyidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39999	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39999

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Pediomyidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Theriamorpha
-	Theriiformes
-	Trechnotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Cladotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Boreosphenida
subclass	Theria	Parker and Haswell 1897
subclass	Metatheria
-	Peradectidae
family	Pediomyidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pediomyidae	subfamily	belongs to Didelphidae	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1927
Pediomyidae	subfamily	belongs to Didelphiidae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1927
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Didelphoidea	stated without evidence	Clemens, 1979
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Marsupialia	stated without evidence	Lillegraven and McKenna, 1986
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Didelphoidea	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Didelphimorphia	stated without evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Marsupialia	stated without evidence	Goin et al., 2006
Pediomyidae	family	belongs to Pediomyoidea	stated with evidence	Davis, 2007
Pediomyidae	unranked clade	belongs to Peradectidae	stated with evidence	Williamson et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (12%)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Metatheria)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Theria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. G. Simpson. 1927. Mesozoic Mammalia. VIII. Genera of Lance mammals other than multituberculates. American Journal of Science 14(80):121-130

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Petaurinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Aletridelphys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	75	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Leptalestes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	54	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pediomys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	39	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Protolambda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Unnuakomys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1927	Pediomyinae Simpson p. 6
1929	Pediomyinae Simpson p. 117
1954	Pediomyinae Wood and Ormsbee p. 30
1979	Pediomyidae Clemens p. 193
1986	Pediomyidae Lillegraven and McKenna p. 37
1997	Pediomyidae McKenna and Bell
2004	Pediomyidae Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 443, 456
2006	Pediomyidae Goin et al.
2007	Pediomyidae Davis p. 228
2012	Pediomyidae Williamson et al.

References

Simpson G. G. (1927) Mesozoic Mammalia. VIII. Genera of Lance mammals other than multituberculates, American Journal of Science 14 80, 121-130 doi:10.2475/ajs.s5-14.80.121

Simpson G. G. (1927) Mammalian Fauna of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, American Museum Novitates 267, 1-8

Simpson G. G. (1929) American Mesozoic Mammalia, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3 1, 1-171

Wood A. E., Ormsbee J. B. S. (1954) Notes on mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming, Journal of Paleontology 28 1, 26-31

Lillegraven J. A., McKenna M. C. (1986) Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages", American Museum Novitates 2840, 1-68

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Cifelli R. L., et al (2004) Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: Origins, evolution, and structure, Columbia University Press, New York, 1-630

Goin F. J., Pascual R., et al (2006) The earliest Tertiary therian mammal from South America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 2, 505-510

Davis B. M. (2007) A revision of “pediomyid” marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 2, 217-256

Williamson T. E., Brusatte S. L., et al (2012) The phylogeny and evolution of Cretaceous–Palaeogene metatherians: cladistic analysis and description of new early Palaeocene specimens from the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 4, 625-651

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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