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Phenacolemur

Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

Taxonomy

Phenacolemur was named by Matthew (1915). It is not extant. Its type is Phenacolemur praecox. It is the type genus of Phenacolemurinae, Phenacolemurini.

It was assigned to Plesiadapidae by Matthew (1917) and Hay (1930); to Primates by Simpson (1936) and Simpson (1940); to Phenacolemurinae by Gunnell (1989); to Phenacolemurini by Robinson and Ivy (1994); and to Paromomyidae by Matthew (1915), Robinson (1968), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Rose et al. (2012).

Species

P. archus, P. fortior, P. lapparenti, P. praecox (type species), P. simonsi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1915	Phenacolemur Matthew
1917	Phenacolemur Matthew p. 833
1930	Phenacolemur Hay p. 446
1936	Phenacolemur Simpson p. 22
1940	Phenacolemur Simpson p. 199
1968	Phenacolemur Robinson p. 324
1989	Phenacolemur Gunnell p. 14
1994	Phenacolemur Robinson and Ivy p. 101
1997	Phenacolemur McKenna and Bell
2012	Phenacolemur Rose et al.

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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
family	Paromomyidae	Simpson 1940
subfamily	Phenacolemurinae	Simpson 1955
tribe	Phenacolemurini	Simpson 1955
genus	Phenacolemur

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. †Phenacolemur Matthew 1915

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†Phenacolemur archus Secord 2008

†Phenacolemur fortior Robinson and Ivy 1994

†Phenacolemur lapparenti Russell et al. 1967

†Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915

†Phenacolemur simonsi Bown and Rose 1976

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 13:27:51

Modified:

2005-08-26 15:27:51

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Lutetian or 58.70000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (58 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Tiffanian	61.7 - 56.8	USA (Wyoming)	P. archus (15059)
Late/Upper Paleocene	58.7 - 55.8	USA (Wyoming)	P. archus (15018)
Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene	58.7 - 48.6	USA (Wyoming)	P. praecox (80579)
Clarkforkian	56.2 - 54.9	USA (Wyoming)	P. archus (15028) P. praecox (15084 15089 15104 15107 15109 15110 15132 15161 15171 15193) P. praecox, P. simonsi (15085) P. simonsi (15072 15082 15120)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	France (Marne)	P. lapparenti (35535)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Wyoming)	P. fortior (88373 88374) P. praecox (16055 46652) P. praecox, P. simonsi (15586 15912) P. simonsi (15491 15493 15501 15504 15507 15510 15525 15592 15705 15884 16035 46657 46818 46828) P. sp. (15673 15683 46687 46688 46698 46699 46772 46780 46797 46798 46809 46820 46831 46832 46843 186939)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	USA (Wyoming)	P. praecox (80580 154274)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	France (Alsace Region)	P. sp. (31609)