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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827462	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827462
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40746	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40746

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Carpolestidae : Elphidotarsius

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
order	Primates	Linnaeus 1758
-	Euprimateformes	Bloch et al. 2007
superfamily	Plesiadapoidea
family	Carpolestidae	Simpson 1935
subfamily	Carpolestinae	Russell 1964
genus	Elphidotarsius	Gidley 1923

Scientific Name

Elphidotarsius Gidley, 1923

Name Published In

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 63, art. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Elphidotarsius	genus	belongs to Carpolestidae	stated without evidence	Gidley, 1923
Elphidotarsius	genus	belongs to Carpolestidae	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1937
Elphidotarsius	genus	belongs to Carpolestinae	stated with evidence	Beard and Wang, 1995
Elphidotarsius	genus	belongs to Carpolestidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Elphidotarsius	genus	belongs to Carpolestinae	stated with evidence	Beard et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

63.3 - 61.7 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

61.7 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Plesiadapoidea)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Plesiadapoidea)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Plesiadapoidea)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Elphidotarsius florencae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	63.3 Ma Paleocene	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Elphidotarsius russelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Elphidotarsius shotgunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Elphidotarsius wightoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1923	Elphidotarsius Gidley
1937	Elphidotarsius Simpson p. 162
1940	Elphidotarsius Simpson p. 204
1989	Elphidotarsius Gunnell p. 147
1995	Elphidotarsius Beard and Wang
1997	Elphidotarsius McKenna and Bell
2016	Elphidotarsius Beard et al.

References

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

Simpson G. G. (1937) The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169, 1-287

Simpson G. G. (1940) Studies on the earliest primates, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77 4, 185-212

Gunnell G. F. (1989) Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27, 1-157

Beard K. C., Wang J. (1995) The first Asian plesiadapoids, Annals of Carnegie Museum 64 1, 1-33

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

Beard K. C., Ni X.-J., et al (2016) Dentition of Subengius mengi (Mammalia: Plesiadapoidea) and a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Asian Carpolestidae, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 54 3, 181-211

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

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 63, art. 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - 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

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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