Anisonchanus
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Genus: | †Anisonchanus |
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†Anisonchanus sectorius | |
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Anisonchanus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived in North America during the Paleocene.
Taxonomy
[edit]In 1881, Edward Drinker Cope named the species Mioclaenus sectorius for jaws with teeth from the Puerco Formation of New Mexico.[2] He reassigned it to the new genus Anisonchus later the same year.[3] That name was preoccupied by the beetle Anisonchus, which was erected by Pierre F.M.A. Dejean in 1833.[4][a] In 1928, Embrik Strand proposed Anisonchanus as a replacement.[1]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
- ^ a b Cope, E.D. (1881a). "Mammalia of the lowest Eocene". The American Naturalist. 15 (10): 829–831. doi:10.1086/272937.
- ^ a b Cope, E.D. (1881b). "On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (109): 484–495. JSTOR 982794.
- ^ a b Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833–1836). Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris, FR: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 157. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8771.
- ^ Bousquet, Y.; Bouchard, P. (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.282.4401. PMID 23794836.