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Peripantostylops minutus

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae

Taxonomy
Pantostylops minutus was named by Ameghino (1901). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Río Chico Oeste, which is in a Lutetian/Bartonian terrestrial horizon in Argentina. It is the type species of Peripantostylops.

It was recombined as Peripantostylops minutus by Ameghino (1904) and Simpson (1948).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1901Selenoconus agilis Ameghino p. 385
1901Pantostylops minutus Ameghino p. 427
1904Peripantostylops minutus Ameghino p. 48
1948Peripantostylops minutus Simpson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
—PaenungulataSimpson 1945
—Sudamericungulata
orderNotoungulata
familyHenricosborniidae()
genusPeripantostylops
speciesminutus()

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.

†Peripantostylops minutus Ameghino 1901
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Invalid names: Selenoconus agilis Ameghino 1901 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-05 17:11:49
Modified: 2009-01-05 19:11:49
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Argentina (Chubut) Peripantostylops minutus (44956 176165 176170)
Lutetian - Bartonian47.8 - 38.0Argentina (Chubut) Selenoconus agilis, Pantostylops minutus (176164)