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Orycteropodidae

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Description

Orycteropodidae is a family of afrotherian mammals. Although there are many fossil species, the only species surviving today is the aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Orycteropodidae is recognized as the only family within the order Tubulidentata, so the two are effectively synonyms.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9470	https://www.gbif.org/species/9470
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	43315	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43315

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae

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

Scientific Name

Orycteropodidae

Name Published In

London Med. Repos. vol.15 p.305

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Oligodontae	stated without evidence	Gray, 1821
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Bruta	stated without evidence	Bonaparte, 1850
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	stated without evidence	Flower, 1883
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Edentata	stated without evidence	Cope, 1889
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Nomarthra	stated without evidence	Cope, 1889
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Vermilinguia	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1889
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Edentata	stated without evidence	Flower and Lydekker, 1891
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Nomarthra	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	stated without evidence	MacInnes, 1955
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	implied	Carroll, 1988
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	stated without evidence	Pickford, 2003
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	stated with evidence	Pickford, 2005
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Tubulidentata	stated without evidence	Lehmann et al., 2005
Orycteropodidae	family	belongs to Afroinsectivora	stated without evidence	Asher and Helgen, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore

Ecospace Comments

life habit and diet based on Nowak 1999

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Common Name(s)

Aardvark, Aardvarks

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Orycteropodinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		99	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Orycteropodina tribe	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Archaeorycteropus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptorycteropus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Orycteropus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Aardvark	94	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Scotaeops genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Orycteropidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Tubulidentata : Orycteropidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1821	Orycteropodidae Gray p. 305
1850	Orycteropodidae Bonaparte p. 1
1883	Orycteropodidae Flower p. 184
1889	Orycteropidae Ameghino p. 658
1889	Orycteropodidae Cope p. 657
1891	Orycteropodidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89
1898	Orycteropodidae Gadow p. 41
1955	Orycteropodidae MacInnes p. 1
1975	Orycteropodidae Patterson p. 186
1975	Orycteropodidae Pickford p. 62
1988	Orycteropodidae Carroll

Year	Name and Author
1991	Orycteropodidae Nowak
2003	Orycteropodidae Pickford p. 195
2003	Orycteropodidae Theodorou et al.
2004	Orycteropodidae Lehmann et al. p. 202
2005	Orycteropodidae Lehmann et al. p. 110
2005	Orycteropodidae Pickford p. 719
2006	Orycteropodidae Lehman et al. p. 694
2007	Orycteropodidae Lehmann p. 179
2008	Orycteropodidae Lehmann p. 69
2010	Orycteropodidae Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1

References

Gray J. E. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals, The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15, 296-310

Bonaparte C.-L. , Conspectus Systematis Mastozoologiae. Editio Altera Reformata [Survey of the system of mammals. Second revised edition]. E. J. Brill, Leyden, 1

Flower W. H. On the arrangement of the Orders and Families of existing Mammalia, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883, 178-186

Ameghino F. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic], Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6, xxxii-1027

Cope E. D. The Edentata of North America, American Naturalist 23 272, 657-664

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

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

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

Nowak R. M. (1991) Walker's Mammals of the World, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press (edited volume) II

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

Asher R. J., Helgen K. M. (2010) Nomenclature and placental mammal phylogeny, BMC Evolutionary BIology 10 102, 1-9

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)

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - 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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