Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Macrocranion

Photos

Photo Gallery

Description

Macrocranion is a genus of extinct mammal from the Eocene epoch of Europe and North America. Exceptional fossils have has been found in the Messel Pit of Germany. Macrocranion species are often described as forest-floor predators, about the size of small squirrels but with longer limbs.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocranion, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4826479	https://www.gbif.org/species/4826479
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40355	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40355

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Adapisoricidae : Macrocranion

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Macroscelidea : Amphilemuridae : Macrocranion

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Afrotheria	Stanhope et al. 1998
-	Afroinsectivora	Waddell et al. 2001
order	Macroscelidea	Butler 1956
family	Amphilemuridae	Hill 1953
genus	Macrocranion	Weitzel 1949

Scientific Name

Macrocranion Weitzel, 1949

Name Published In

Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., no. 480

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Dormaaliidae	stated without evidence	Weitzel, 1949
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Creotarsinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Dormaaliidae	stated with evidence	Novacek et al., 1985
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Amphilemuridae	stated with evidence	Smith and Smith, 1995
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Amphilemurinae	stated with evidence	Smith et al., 2002
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Amphilemuridae	stated with evidence	Hooker and Russell, 2012
Macrocranion	genus	belongs to Amphilemuridae	stated without evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 50.3 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Macroscelidea)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocranion

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dormaalius vandebroeki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Entomolestes nitens species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		32	59.2 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Macrocranion germonpreae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Macrocranion junnei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Macrocranion robinsoni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	46.2 Ma Eocene	40.4 Ma Eocene
Macrocranion tenerum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Macrocranion tupaiodon ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Macrocranion vandebroeki species	listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1949	Aculeodens Weitzel
1949	Macrocranion Weitzel
1964	Dormaalius Quinet
1967	Dormaalius Van Valen
1967	Macrocranion Van Valen
1985	Dormaalius Novacek et al. p. 4

Year	Name and Author
1985	Macrocranion Novacek et al. p. 4
1988	Dormaalius Carroll
1995	Macrocranion Smith and Smith
2002	Macrocranion Smith et al. p. 374
2012	Macrocranion Hooker and Russell
2012	Macrocranion Rose et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Novacek M. J., Bown T. M., et al (1985) On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia), American Museum Novitates 2813, 1-22

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Smith T., Bloch J. I., et al (2002) New species of Macrocranion (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) from the earliest Eocene of North America and its biogeographic implications, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30 14, 373-384

Hooker J. J., Russell D. E. (2012) Early Palaeogene Louisinidae (Macroscelidea, Mammalia), their relationships and north European diversity, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164, 856-936

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., no. 480 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Synonymy List References

Go to top of page