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Xanclomys is a small mammal from the PaleoceneThe Paleocene epoch (64-58 mya) ("early dawn of the recent") is the first geologic epoch of the Tertiary period in the modern Cenozoic era. As with most other older geologic periods, the strata that define the epoch's beginning are well identified, but th of North America. It was a genusSee genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. See genus (music) for the use of the term in music. In biology, a genus (plural genera is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically s within the extinct order of Multituberculata.
For those of a technical inclination, it's within the Suborder of CimolodontaCimolodonta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Superfamilies Paracimexomys group Djadochtatherioidea Taeniolabidoidea Ptilodontoidea Other families Eucosmodontidae Microcosmodontidae Kogaionidae, family Neoplagiaulacidae.
Genus: Xanclomys Rigby JK, 1980
Aka: Xancolomys
Species: Xanclomys mcgrewi Rigby JK, 1980
Place: Swain Quarry, Wyoming
Country: USA
Age: Torrejonian, PaleoceneThe Paleocene epoch (64-58 mya) ("early dawn of the recent") is the first geologic epoch of the Tertiary period in the modern Cenozoic era. As with most other older geologic periods, the strata that define the epoch's beginning are well identified, but th
Remarks: Affinities are uncertain. There's perhaps a second, unnamed species scurrying around somewhere.
Reference: Rigby (1980), Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna. Evolutionary Monographs, 3, vi+179pp.
Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.
(This information has been derived from [1] MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea, an internet directory. As that's my webpage, there are no issues of copyright. )
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