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Paenepetenyia

Mammalia - Soricidae

Taxonomy

Paenepetenyia was named by Storch (1995). Its type is Paenepetenyia zhudingi.

It was assigned to Soricidae by Storch (1995).

Species

P. zhudingi (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1995	Paenepetenyia Storch p. 228

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Soricidae	Fischer 1814
genus	Paenepetenyia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Paenepetenyia Storch 1995

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†Paenepetenyia zhudingi Storch 1995

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. Storch 1995	Large-sized. 5 upper antemolars in front of P4; I sup. not fissident; i inf. slender and bicuspulate; a1 elongate, double-cusped, and with posterolingual basin; parastyle on P4 not conspicuously protruding anteriorly and protocone located rather close to paracone. p4 elongate, two-cusped, and with large posterolingual basin; M1-2 with distinct posterior emargination, rather expanded and concave hypoconal flange, well-developed protocone, and metaloph absent in most of the specimens, short in the remainder; M1 with continuous endoloph; m1-2 with strong and high entoconid and entocristid, entoconid close to metaconid, and with broad ectocingulid; m1 with evenly convex (not rectangular) anterolabial outline and short talonid; m3 talonid greatly reduced; lower articular facet of massive condyloid process situated rather anteriorly and interarticular area broad; internal temporal fossa subdivided by strong limula; coronoid process rather small; one mandibular foramen.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

omnivoref

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-06-08 10:11:09

Modified:

2005-08-22 18:40:24

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 11.60800 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	China (Nei Mongol)	P. zhudingi (68591)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	China (Nei Mongol)	P. zhudingi (68592)