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Palaeoryctes is an extinct genus of mammal from Middle to Late Palaeocene of North America.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831724	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831724
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40228	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40228

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Palaeoryctidae : Palaeoryctes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolesta : Palaeoryctidae : Palaeoryctes

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
-	Cimolesta
suborder	Palaeoryctida	Averianov 2003
family	Palaeoryctidae	Winge 1917
genus	Palaeoryctes	Matthew 1913

Scientific Name

Palaeoryctes Matthew, 1913

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 32

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctidae	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1913
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctinae	stated without evidence	Gheerbrant, 1992
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctidae	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2006
Palaeoryctes	genus	belongs to Palaeoryctidae	stated with evidence	Silcox et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 63.3 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Diet

insectivore (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Palaeoryctidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palaeoryctes cruoris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Palaeoryctes jepseni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	61.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Palaeoryctes minimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	59.2 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Palaeoryctes puercensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	63.3 Ma Paleocene	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Palaeoryctes punctatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	61.7 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1913	Palaeoryctes Matthew
1967	Palaeoryctes Van Valen
1988	Palaeoryctes Carroll
1992	Palaeoryctes Gheerbrant
2006	Palaeoryctes Lopatin
2010	Palaeoryctes Silcox 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

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

Gheerbrant E. (1992) Les mammifères paléocènes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). I.Introduction générale et Palaeoryctidae, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 224 3-6, 67-132

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

Silcox M. T., Bloch J. I., et al (2010) Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, 773-825

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/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

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 32 - 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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