Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
Said to be a new rank of Gazin's subfamily Diacodexinae, but they retained that subfamily, too. A taxon cannot belong to itself, so I am recording this family as belonging to Krishtalka and Stucky (1985) [JDM]
Full reference: L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1985. Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 54(14):413-486
Parent taxon: Artiodactyla according to K. D. Rose et al. 2012
See also Erfurt and Sudre 1996, Franzen 2004, Kumar et al. 2010 and Theodor et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Achaenodontidae, Ancodonta, Antiacodontidae, Antiacodontinae, Booidea, Bunomerycidae, Caenotheriidae, Cainotherioidea, Camelidae, Choeropotamoidea, Climacoceratidae, Dichobunoidea, Eolantianus, Erlianhyus, Eurytheriidae, Haplobunodontidae, Hsanotherium, Hyodonta, Leptochoerinae, Merycoidodontidae, Merycoidodontoidea, Myanmarius, Neoselenodontia, Nonruminantia, Omnivora, Raphenacodus, Ruminantiamorpha, Suiformes, Suoidea, Tapirulidae, Tragulohyus, Trigonolestidae, Tylopoda, Entelodontoidea, Cetruminantia, Whippomorpha
Subtaxa: Bunophorinae Bunophorus Diacodexis Gujaratia Magwetherium Neodiacodexis Simpsonodus Tapochoerus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (2 collections), France (16), Germany (1), India (4), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (443: California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 482 collections including 592 occurrences