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Plagiaulacidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39802	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39802

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata : Plagiaulacidae

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
-	Allotheria
order	Multituberculata	Cope 1884
suborder	Plagiaulacida
family	Plagiaulacidae	Gill 1872

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Allotheria	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1880
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Mammalia	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1887
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Multituberculata	stated without evidence	Flower and Lydekker, 1891
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Allotheria	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1928
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1929
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated with evidence	Huene, 1940
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Multituberculata	stated without evidence	Patterson, 1956
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated without evidence	Hahn, 1971
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1998
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacida	stated with evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacida	stated without evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004
Plagiaulacidae	family	belongs to Plagiaulacoidea	stated with evidence	Cifelli et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

63.3 - 61.7 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Multituberculata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Plagiaulacinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Polymastodontinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Allacodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Bolodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Plagiaulax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1872	Plagiaulacidae Gill
1880	Plagiaulacidae Marsh p. 239
1887	Chirogidae Cope p. 874
1887	Plagiaulacidae Marsh p. 329
1887	Bolodontidae Osborn p. 3
1889	Chirogidae Cope p. 874
1889	Cimolomidae Marsh
1889	Dipriodontidae Marsh
1889	Cimolomidae Marsh p. 177
1891	Plagiaulacidae Flower and Lydekker p. 88
1894	Bolodontidae Lydekker p. 283
1894	Plagiaulacidae Lydekker p. 284
1902	Bolodontidae Hay p. 557
1902	Plagiaulacidae Hay p. 558

Year	Name and Author
1928	Plagiaulacidae Simpson p. 32
1929	Plagiaulacidae Simpson p. 11
1940	Plagiaulacidae Huene p. 9
1956	Plagiaulacidae Patterson p. 9
1963	Plagiaulacidae Clemens p. 59
1971	Plagiaulacidae Clemens and Lees p. 122
1971	Plagiaulacidae Hahn p. 35
1979	Plagiaulacidae Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
1997	Plagiaulacidae McKenna and Bell
1998	Plagiaulacidae Carpenter p. 394
2001	Plagiaulacidae Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum p. 414
2004	Plagiaulacidae Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 254, 314
2014	Plagiaulacidae Cifelli et al.

References

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

Marsh O. C. Notice of new Jurassic mammals representing two new orders, The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 20 28, 235-239

Marsh O. C. American Jurassic mammals, The American Journal of Science, series 3 33 196, 327-348

Cope E. D. Synopsis of the families of Vertebrata, The American Naturalist 23, 1-29

Marsh O. C. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. Part II, American Journal of Science 38, 177-180

Marsh O. C. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia, American Journal of Science 38, 81-92

Lydekker R. , A Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata, 1-302

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Simpson G. G. (1928) , A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum, 1-215

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

Huene F. v. (1940) , Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 93: Mammalia Triadica, 1-13

Clemens W. A. (1963) Wealden mammalian fossils, Palaeontology 6 1, 55-69

Clemens W. A., Lees P. M. (1971) A review of English Early Cretaceous mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50 suppl. 1, 117-130

Hahn G. (1971) The dentition of the Paulchoffatiidae (Multituberculata, Upper Jurassic), Memoria, Servicos Geologicos de Portugal 17, 1-39

Clemens W. A., Kielan-Jaworowska Z. (1979) Multituberculata, Mesozoic Mammals: the first two-thirds of mammalian history, 99-149

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Hurum J. H. (2001) Phylogeny and systematics of multituberculate mammals, Palaeontology 44 3, 389-429

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

Cifelli R. L., Davis B. M., et al (2014) Earliest Cretaceous mammals from the western United States, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 1, 31-52 doi:10.4202/app.2012.0089

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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