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Anisonchanus

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Anisonchanus
Temporal range: Paleocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Periptychidae
Subfamily: Anisonchinae
Genus: Anisonchanus
Strand, 1928[1]
Type species
Anisonchanus sectorius
(Cope, 1881a)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
    • Mioclaenus sectorius
      Cope, 1881a
    • Anisonchus sectorius
      (Cope, 1881a)

Anisonchanus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived in North America during the Paleocene.

Taxonomy

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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]

Notes

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  1. ^ The publication date is based on Bousquet & Bouchard (2013).[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
  2. ^ a b Cope, E.D. (1881a). "Mammalia of the lowest Eocene". The American Naturalist. 15 (10): 829–831. doi:10.1086/272937.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.