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Leptictidae

Mammalia - Leptictidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Leptictidae Gill
1874Isacidae Cope
1887Ictopsidae Schlosser
1889Leptictidae Cope p. 876
1902Leptictidae Hay p. 738
1910Leptictidae Gregory p. 464
1911Leptictidae Jaekel p. 210
1927Leptictidae Simpson p. 6
1965Leptictidae Sloan and Van Valen p. 225
1966Leptictidae Johnson p. 80
1967Leptictidae Van Valen
1976Leptictidae Novacek p. 3
1985Leptictidae Novacek et al. p. 464
1997Leptictidae McKenna and Bell
2007Leptictidae Wible et al.
2010Leptictidae Meehan and Martin p. 102
2010Leptictidae Silcox et al.
2015Leptictidae Clemens
2016Leptictidae Velazco and Novacek p. 4
2022Leptictidae Korth p. 310
2022Leptictidae Korth et al.
2022Leptictidae Velazco et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
superorderLeptictida
familyLeptictidaeGill 1872
familyLeptictidaeGill 1872

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.

Fm. †Leptictidae Gill 1872
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G. †Amphigyion Gingerich and Smith 2006
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Amphigyion straitae Gingerich and Smith 2006
G. †Anomodon Leconte 1848
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Anomodon snyderi Leconte 1848
G. †Asioictops Tong and Wang 2006
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Asioictops mckennai Tong and Wang 2006
G. †Blacktops Meehan and Martin 2010
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Blacktops latidens Meehan and Martin 2010
Blacktops longinares Meehan and Martin 2010
G. †Eoictops Gunnell et al. 2016
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Eoictops novaceki Gunnell et al. 2016
Subfm. †Leptictinae Gill 1872
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G. †Hypictops Gazin 1949
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Hypictops syntaphus Gazin 1949
G. †Leptictis Leidy 1868
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Leptictis acutidens Douglass 1902
Leptictis bullatus Matthew 1899
Leptictis dakotensis Leidy 1868
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Invalid names: Nanohyus porcinus Leidy 1869 [synonym]
Leptictis douglassi Novacek 1976
Leptictis haydeni Leidy 1868
Leptictis montanus Douglass 1905
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Invalid names: Ictops intermedius Douglass 1905 [synonym], Ictops tenuis Douglass 1905 [synonym]
Leptictis thomsoni Matthew 1903
Leptictis wilsoni Novacek 1976
Invalid names: Ictidops Winge 1917 [synonym], Ictops Leidy 1868 [synonym], Ictops major Douglass 1905 [nomen dubium], Isacis Cope 1873 [synonym], Isacis caniculus Cope 1873 [nomen dubium], Mesodectes Cope 1875 [synonym], Nanohyus Leidy 1869 [synonym]
G. †Megaleptictis Meehan and Martin 2012
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Megaleptictis altidens Meehan and Martin 2012
Invalid names: Diacodontinae Trouessart 1879 [synonym]
G. †Myrmecoboides Gidley 1915
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Myrmecoboides arenarius Secord 2008
G. †Palaeictops Matthew 1899
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Palaeictops altimontis Velazco and Novacek 2016
Palaeictops bicuspis Cope 1880
Palaeictops borealis Russell 1965
Palaeictops bridgeri Simpson 1959
Palaeictops matthewi Novacek 1977
Palaeictops multicuspis Granger 1910
Palaeictops robustus Velazco and Novacek 2016
Invalid names: Palaeictidops Winge 1917 [synonym], Parictops Granger 1910 [synonym]
G. †Prodiacodon Matthew 1929
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Invalid names: Diacodon pearcei Gazin 1956 [synonym]
Prodiacodon crustulum Novacek 1977
Prodiacodon furor Novacek 1977
Prodiacodon paucus Secord 2008
Prodiacodon puercensis Matthew 1918
Prodiacodon tauricinerei Jepsen 1930
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Invalid names: Diacodon pineyensis Gazin 1952 [synonym]
Invalid names: Palaeolestes Matthew and Granger 1918 [synonym]
Subfm. †Pseudorhynchocyoninae Sige 1974
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G. †Pseudorhynchocyon Filhol 1895
G. †Scileptictis Tong and Wang 2006
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Scileptictis simplus Tong and Wang 2006
Scileptictis stenotalus Tong and Wang 2006
G. †Stenoleptictis Korth 2022
Invalid names: Gypsonictopinae Van Valen 1967 [empty], Ictopsidae Schlosser 1887 [synonym], Isacidae Cope 1874 [synonym], Procerberinae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: insectivoref
Diet 2: carnivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Comments: "insectivorous" but with a diet including "small vertebrates"; skeleton has "adaptations towards digging and saltatory locomotion"f
Created: 2011-04-16 19:28:33
Modified: 2011-04-16 04:29:22
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Meehan and Martin 2010, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Puercan to the top of the Pleistocene or 66.00000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (218 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Puercan66.0 - 63.3Canada (Saskatchewan) Prodiacodon sp. (14691 14768)
Puercan66.0 - 63.3USA (Montana) Palaeictops sp., Prodiacodon crustulum (14766) Prodiacodon crustulum (14666 14759 14799 14800 183112 183113 183114 218653)
Puercan66.0 - 63.3USA (New Mexico) Leptictidae indet. (14794)
To263.3 - 61.7Canada (Alberta) Prodiacodon furor (14894)
Torrejonian63.3 - 61.7USA (Texas) Palaeictops sp. (14956)
Torrejonian63.3 - 61.7USA (Montana) Myrmecoboides montanensis, Prodiacodon concordiarcensis, Prodiacodon furor (14906)
Torrejonian63.3 - 61.7USA (Wyoming) Diacodon concordiarcensis, Myrmecoboides montanensis, Prodiacodon puercensis (14886) Leptictidae indet., Myrmecoboides sp., Palaeictops sp. (14912) Prodiacodon sp. (14897 14898 14900 14904 14905)
Torrejonian63.3 - 61.7USA (New Mexico) Leptictidae indet., Prodiacodon puercensis (14893) Prodiacodon puercensis (14815 14833 14859) Prodiacodon sp. (14816)
Torrejonian63.3 - 61.7USA (Utah) Myrmecoboides sp. (14830)
Ti161.7 - 56.8Canada (Alberta) Myrmecoboides montanensis, Prodiacodon concordiarcensis, Prodiacodon furor, Prodiacodon puercensis (14939)
Ti361.7 - 56.8Canada (Alberta) Prodiacodon sp. (14992)
Tiffanian61.7 - 56.8USA (North Dakota) Prodiacodon sp. (14976)
Tiffanian61.7 - 56.8USA (Montana) Myrmecoboides montanensis (15008) Myrmecoboides montanensis, Prodiacodon concordiarcensis, Prodiacodon furor (15025)
Tiffanian61.7 - 56.8USA (Wyoming) Diacodon pearcei (14989) Leptictidae indet. (15036) Myrmecoboides sp. (15017) Palaeictops sp. (15032) Palaeictops sp., Prodiacodon concordiarcensis (15049) Palaeictops sp., Prodiacodon sp. (26569) Prodiacodon concordarcensis (198263) Prodiacodon concordiarcensis, Prodiacodon furor (14936) Prodiacodon concordiarcensis, Prodiacodon puercensis (198264) Prodiacodon paucus (15059) Prodiacodon puercensis (198262) Prodiacodon sp. (15034) Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15058 85096 190462)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8USA (Wyoming) Prodiacodon sp. (15024)
Clarkforkian56.8 - 55.8USA (Colorado) Prodiacodon sp. (15239)
Clarkforkian56.8 - 55.8USA (Wyoming) Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15085 15107 15159)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom Leptictidae indet. (87950)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) Leptictidae indet. (38868 133368)
Lostcabinian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Leptictidae indet., Palaeictops multicuspis (15930) Palaeictops multicuspis (15917) Palaeictops sp., Palaeictops multicuspis (15915)
Lysitean - Lostcabinian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Prodiacodon sp. (15451)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (Colorado) Palaeictops bicuspis (15294 15310 15340 15652) Palaeictops bicuspis, Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15225) Palaeictops matthewi (15333 15420 15650) Palaeictops tauricinerei (15450 15480 15485 15660 15725 15845 15887) Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15222 15353 15391)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3Canada (Northwest Territories) Prodiacodon sp. (15583)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Diacodon alticuspis (15596) Leptictidae indet. (15479 15582) Palaeictops bicuspis (15551 15553 15554 15556 15557 15558 15576 15578 15589 15687 15692 15694 15702 46636 46692 46699 46701 46706 46721 46755 46782 46820 46834) Palaeictops bicuspis, Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15548 15577 15586) Palaeictops multicuspis (15559) Palaeictops pineyensis (15486 15662 15964) Palaeictops sp. (15842 15902 15934 16074) Palaeictops sp., Prodiacodon sp. (15673 118482) Palaeictops tauricinerei (15455 15893 15932 16021 16055) Prodiacodon sp. (15729 15793 15897) Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15491 15493 15504 15505 15507 15510 15512 15514 15515 15516 15518 15520 15522 15531 15534 15544 15555 15573)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (New Mexico) Palaeictops sp., Prodiacodon sp. (15446) Prodiacodon sp. (15448) Prodiacodon tauricinerei (15453)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (North Dakota) Palaeictops tauricinerei (15895)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6France (Var) Leptictidae indet. (35538)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6China (Shandong) Asioictops mckennai, Scileptictis simplus, Scileptictis stenotalus (77929)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6USA (Wyoming) Amphigyion straitae (80580) Palaeictops bicuspis (15680)
Wasatchian - Bridgerian55.8 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Palaeictops bicuspis (15669)
Wasatchian - Bridgerian55.8 - 46.2Canada (Northwest Territories) Leptictidae indet. (15584)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Utah) Palaeictops bridgeri (16396)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Diacodon bridgeri (16428) Hypictops syntaphus (16279) Leptictidae indet. (15837) Palaeictops bridgeri (16137 16204 16223 16388 16415 16446 16499) Palaeictops sp., Palaeictops multicuspis (16207)
Early/Lower Uintan46.2 - 40.4USA (California) Leptictidae indet. (16705)
Early/Lower Uintan46.2 - 40.4USA (Colorado) Leptictidae indet. (16623)
Late/Upper Uintan46.2 - 40.4Canada (Saskatchewan) Palaeictops borealis, Leptictis sp. (16626)
Late/Upper Uintan46.2 - 40.4USA (Texas) Leptictidae indet. (16614)
Uintan46.2 - 40.4USA (Utah) Palaeictops robustus (189826)
Uintan46.2 - 40.4USA (Wyoming) Leptictidae indet. (16630) Palaeictops altimontis (189827)
Duchesnean40.4 - 37.2Canada (Saskatchewan) Leptictis sp. (16846) Palaeictops borealis, Leptictis sp. (16845)
Duchesnean40.4 - 37.2USA (Wyoming) Palaeictops sp. (16826)
Duchesnean40.4 - 37.2USA (Texas) Leptictis douglassi (16835)
Duchesnean - Chadronian40.4 - 33.9USA (Montana) Leptictis sp. (16840)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Spain (Catalonia) Leptictis sp. (31751)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (South Dakota) Ictops dakotensis (17006 17007)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (North Dakota) Leptictis sp. (16991)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Montana) Ictops magnus, Ictops montanus, Leptictis montanus (16990)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Wyoming) Ictops sp. (16908 16952) Leptictis dakotensis (16942 16943)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Texas) Leptictis wilsoni (17016)
Late/Upper Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Montana) Leptictis sp. (17027)
Middle Chadronian37.2 - 33.9Canada (Saskatchewan) Leptictis sp. (16928)
Chadronian - Orellan37.2 - 33.3USA (South Dakota) Megaleptictis altidens (154199)
Late/Upper Chadronian - Orellan37.2 - 33.3USA (Nebraska) Leptictis dakotensis, Blacktops sp. (230806)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (Colorado) Ictops sp. (17081 17082)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (Wyoming) Leptictis dakotensis (17104 17105 17106) Leptictis sp. (17318)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3Canada (Saskatchewan) Leptictis sp. (17111)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (Nebraska) Blacktops longinares, Blacktops latidens (17221) Leptictis sp. (17098 17108)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (North Dakota) Leptictis dakotensis (17100)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (South Dakota) Ictops dakotensis (17133) Ictops sp. (17094 17102 17174 17187 17188 17189 17190 17198) Leptictis haydeni (17295) Megaleptictis altidens (163487)
Whitneyan33.3 - 30.8Canada (Saskatchewan) Leptictis sp. (17372)
Whitneyan33.3 - 30.8USA (South Dakota) Ictops sp. (17384) Leptictis dakotensis (17336)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Illinois) Anomodon snyderi (87059)