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Orycteropus

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Description

Orycteropus is a genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata. The genus is known from Late Miocene to Recent of Africa.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5218415	https://www.gbif.org/species/5218415
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	43318	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43318

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae : Orycteropus

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
-	Pseudoungulata	Waddell et al. 1999
order	Tubulidentata	Huxley 1872
family	Orycteropodidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Orycteropodinae	Gray 1821
genus	Orycteropus	G.Cuvier 1798

Common Name

aardvark

Scientific Name

Orycteropus G.Cuvier, 1798

Name Published In

Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim. vol.1798 p.144

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1825
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropodidae	stated without evidence	MacInnes, 1955
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropodinae	stated without evidence	Patterson, 1975
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropodidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropodidae	stated without evidence	Pickford, 2003
Orycteropus	genus	belongs to Orycteropodinae	stated without evidence	Lehman et al., 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (13%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore

Ecospace Comments

a nocturnal animal that burrows relatively deeply in the ground for shelter... Its diet consists of ants, termites and larvae of some insects

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Orycteropus abundulafus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus afer species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Aardvark	27	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Orycteropus browni ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus chemeldoi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	23.0 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus crassidens ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Orycteropus depereti ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orycteropus djourabensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus erikssoni ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orycteropus gaudryi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	13.8 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus leptodon ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orycteropus mauritanicus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus minutus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus pilgrimi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus pottieri ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus sensi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Orycteropus Geoffroy, 1796	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae : *Orycteropus*
Oryctheropus Muirhead, 1819	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae : *Oryctheropus*
Orajeteropus Hill, 1913	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae : *Orajeteropus*
Oryctopus Rafinesque, 1815	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae : *Oryctopus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1791	Orycteropus Geoffroy
1825	Orycteropus Gray p. 343
1955	Orycteropus MacInnes p. 27
1975	Orycteropus Patterson p. 201
1975	Orycteropus Pickford p. 62
1988	Orycteropus Carroll
2003	Orycteropus Pickford p. 195

Year	Name and Author
2003	Orycteropus Theodorou et al.
2004	Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 202
2005	Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 110
2005	Orycteropus Pickford p. 719
2006	Orycteropus Lehman et al. p. 694
2007	Orycteropus Lehmann p. 181
2008	Orycteropus Lehmann p. 69

References

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

Gray J. E. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe, Annals of Philosophy, new series 10, 337-344

MacInnes D. G. (1955) Fossil Tubulidentata from East Africa, Fossil Mammals of Africa 10, 1-38

Patterson B. (1975) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, The fossil aardvarks (Mammalia: Tubulidentata) 147 5, 186-237

Pickford M. (1975) New fossil Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Orycteropus minutus sp. nov. and Orycteropus chemeldoi sp. nov., Netherlands Journal of Zoology 25 1, 57-88

Pickford M. (2003) Minute species of Orycteropus from the early Middle Miocene at Arrisdrift, Namibia, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19, 195-198

Theodorou G., Athanassiou A., et al (2003) Preliminary remarks on the Late Miocene herbivores of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece), Deinsea, Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn 10, 519-530

Lehmann T., Vignaud P., et al (2004) A fossil aardvark (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from the lower Pliocene of Chad, Journal of African Earth Sciences 40, 201-217

Lehmann T., Vignaud P., et al (2005) A new species of Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) in the Mio-Pliocene of northern Chad, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Soceity 143 1, 109-131

Pickford M. (2005) Orycteropus (Tubulidentata, Mammalia) from Langebaanweg and Baard’s Quarry, Early Pliocene of South Africa, Comptes Rendus Palevol 4, 715-726 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2005.06.001

Lehmann T. (2007) Amended taxonomy of the order Tubulidentata (Mammalia, Eutheria), Annals of the Transvaal Museum 44, 179-196

Lehmann T. (2008) Plio-Pleistocene aardvarks (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa, Fossil Record 11 2, 67-81

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim. vol. 1798 p. 144 - 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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