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Pelycodus

Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae

Taxonomy

Pelycodus was named by Cope (1875). Its type is Prototomus jarrovii.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tomitherium by Cope (1876).

It was assigned to Quadrumana by Cope (1875); to Pseudolemuridae by Schlosser (1877); to Limnotheriidae by Hay (1902); to Notharctidae by Osborn (1902); to Notharctinae by Simpson (1940) and Gingerich (1979); to Notharctinae by Franzen (1994); and to Adapidae by Matthew (1915), Gazin (1958), Gingerich and Simons (1977), Gingerich (1980), Gingerich and Haskin (1981), Beard (1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

Species

P. danielsae (syn. P. schidelerorum), P. eppsi, P. jarrovii, P. savagei

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1875	Pelycodus Cope p. 13
1877	Pelycodus Schlosser p. 35
1902	Pelycodus Hay p. 789
1902	Pelycodus Osborn p. 192
1915	Pelycodus Matthew
1940	Pelycodus Simpson p. 202
1958	Pelycodus Gazin
1977	Pelycodus Gingerich and Simons
1979	Pelycodus Gingerich p. 155
1980	Pelycodus Gingerich p. 137
1981	Pelycodus Gingerich and Haskin
1988	Pelycodus Beard
1994	Pelycodus Franzen p. 115
1997	Pelycodus McKenna and Bell

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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
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Adapiformes	Hoffstetter 1977
family	Adapidae	Trouessart 1879
genus	Pelycodus

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. †Pelycodus Cope 1875

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†Pelycodus danielsae Froehlich and Lucas 1991

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Invalid names: Pelycodus schidelerorum Kihm 1992 [synonym]

†Pelycodus eppsi Cooper 1932

†Pelycodus jarrovii Cope 1874

†Pelycodus savagei Gingerich 1977

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialf

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealf

Diet:

herbivoref

Reproduction:

viviparousf

Created:

2005-08-24 13:58:29

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:58:29

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

References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Wasatchian or 55.80000 to 50.30000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	United Kingdom	P. sp. (87950)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Wyoming)	P. sp. (15898)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Colorado)	P. jarrovii (15280 15296 15650) P. schidelerorum (15418 15419)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (New Mexico)	P. jarrovii (15449) P. sp. (15448) Prototomus jarrovii (15452)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	France (Var)	P. eppsi (35538)