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Gypsonictops
Taxonomy
Gypsonictops was named by Simpson (1927). Its type is Gypsonictops hypoconus. It is the type genus of Gypsonictopidae.
It was assigned to Leptictidae by Simpson (1927) and Simpson (1927); to Leptictinae by Hay (1930); to Erinaceoidea by Sloan and Van Valen (1965); to Gypsonictopinae by Van Valen (1967); to Leptictoidea by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Insectivora by Simpson (1929), Wood and Ormsbee (1954) and Lillegraven and McKenna (1986); to Gypsonictopsidae by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Gypsonictopidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Wible et al. (2007); and to Leptictida by Silcox et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Leptictidae by Simpson (1927) and Simpson (1927); to Leptictinae by Hay (1930); to Erinaceoidea by Sloan and Van Valen (1965); to Gypsonictopinae by Van Valen (1967); to Leptictoidea by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1979); to Insectivora by Simpson (1929), Wood and Ormsbee (1954) and Lillegraven and McKenna (1986); to Gypsonictopsidae by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Gypsonictopidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Wible et al. (2007); and to Leptictida by Silcox et al. (2010).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1927 | Gypsonictops Simpson |
| 1929 | Euangelistes Simpson p. 107 |
| 1929 | Gypsonictops Simpson p. 137 |
| 1930 | Gypsonictops Hay p. 432 |
| 1954 | Euangelistes Wood and Ormsbee p. 30 |
| 1954 | Gypsonictops Wood and Ormsbee p. 30 |
| 1965 | Gypsonictops Sloan and Van Valen p. 221 |
| 1967 | Gypsonictops Van Valen |
| 1979 | Gypsonictops Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 223 |
| 1986 | Gypsonictops Lillegraven and McKenna p. 38 |
| 1997 | Gypsonictops McKenna and Bell |
| 2004 | Gypsonictops Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 494, 506 fig. 13.24C |
| 2007 | Gypsonictops Wible et al. |
| 2010 | Gypsonictops Silcox et al. |
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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. †Gypsonictops Simpson 1927
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†Gypsonictops clemensi Rigby, Jr. and Wolberg 1987
†Gypsonictops hypoconus Simpson 1927
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Invalid names: Euangelistes petersoni Simpson 1929 [synonym]
†Gypsonictops illuminatus Lillegraven 1969
†Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni 1972
Invalid names: Euangelistes Simpson 1929 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Judithian to the top of the Edmontonian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (86 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Judithian | USA (Wyoming) | G. lewisi (14433 14458) | |
| Judithian | USA (New Mexico) | G. sp. (14464) | |
| Judithian | USA (Utah) | G. sp. C (14467) | |
| Judithian | Canada (Alberta) | G. lewisi (14451 14463 14471 14485) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (New Mexico) | G. sp. (14436 14498 56627) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Utah) | G. sp. A (14466) G. sp. B, G. sp. A (75836) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | G. lewisi (45899) | |
| Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Montana) | G. lewisi (14446 14461 14470) G. sp. (14434 14457) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Canada (Alberta) | G. sp. (14502) | |
| Edmontonian | USA (New Mexico) | G. clemensi, G. lewisi (14496) | |
| Lancian | USA (Colorado) | G. sp. (14581 14640) | |
| Lancian | Canada (Alberta) | G. hypoconus, G. illuminatus (14630) G. illuminatus (14632 14634 14637) | |
| Lancian | USA (Wyoming) | G. hypoconus (14514 14519 14522 14524 14527 14538 14565 14566 14570 14587 14591 14596 14598 14601 14606 14609 14641 14642) G. hypoconus, Euangelistes petersoni (14505) G. sp. (14542) | |
| Lancian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | G. illuminatus (14558 14584 14655) | |
| Lancian | USA (South Dakota) | G. hypoconus (14537 14604 14612) | |
| Lancian | USA (Montana) | G. hypoconus (14576 172644) G. hypoconus, G. illuminatus (14515 14616) G. hypoconus, G. petersoni (14516) G. illuminatus (14506 14528 14533 14534 14535 14536 14549 14575 14580 14583 14608 14617 14618 14623 14624 14647 14650) G. petersoni (14517) G. sp. (14508 14562) G. sp., G. hypoconus (172642) | |
| Lancian | USA (North Dakota) | G. illuminatus (14610) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Wyoming) | G. hypoconus (14585) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Dakota) | G. sp. (45137) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Montana) | G. hypoconus (119009) G. sp. (55326) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Canada (Alberta) | G. hypoconus (14569) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | G. sp. (54105) |