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Peltephilidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832779	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832779
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	146413	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=146413

Rank

family (GBIF)
unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Peltephilidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Peltephilidae

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
-	Americatheria	Shockey 2017
-	Xenarthra
-	Cingulata
family	Peltephilidae

Scientific Name

Peltephilidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Peltephilidae	family	belongs to Cingulata	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1894
Peltephilidae	family	belongs to Peltateloidea	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1897
Peltephilidae	family	belongs to Dasypodoidea	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Peltephilidae	family	belongs to Cingulata	stated without evidence	Kramarz et al., 2010
Peltephilidae	unranked clade	belongs to Cingulata	stated with evidence	Shockey, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.00 - 7.25 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Xenarthra)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452

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Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anantiosodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	17.5 Ma Miocene	17.5 Ma Miocene
Epipeltephilus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	11.6 Ma Miocene	10.00 Ma Miocene
Parapeltecoelus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Peltecoelus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Peltephilus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	33.9 Ma Oligocene	15.5 Ma Miocene
Ronwolffia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	29.0 Ma Oligocene	29.0 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Peltephilidae Ameghino
1897	Peltephilidae Ameghino p. 509
1997	Peltephilidae McKenna and Bell p. 86
2007	Peltephilidae Croft et al. p. 784
2010	Peltephilidae Kramarz et al.
2017	Peltephilidae Shockey

References

Ameghino F. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie, Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13, 259-452

Ameghino F. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)], Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18 4–9, 406-521

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

Croft D. A., Flynn J. J., et al (2007) A New Basal Glyptodontid and other Xenarthra of the Early Miocene Chucal Fauna, Northern Chile, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 4, 781-797 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[781:ANBGAO]2.0.CO;2

Kramarz A. G., Vucetich M. G., et al (2010) A new mammal fauna at the top of the Gran Barranca sequence and its biochronological significance, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 264-277

Shockey B. J. (2017) New Early Diverging Cingulate (Xenarthra: Peltephilidae) from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia and Considerations Regarding the Origin of Crown Xenarthra, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 2, 371-396

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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

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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