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Tetonoides pearcei

Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

Taxonomy
Tetonoides pearcei was named by Gazin (1962). Its type specimen is U.S.N.M. No. 22426, a mandible (right ramus of mandible with P3-M2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bitter Creek, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Tetonoides.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tetonius musculus by Delson (1971); it was synonymized subjectively with Anemorhysis tenuiculus by Szalay (1976); it was recombined as Anemorhysis pearcei by Bown (1974), Bown and Rose (1984), Bown and Rose (1987) and Rose (1995).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Tetonoides pearcei Gazin p. 35
1974Anemorhysis pearcei Bown
1978Tetonoides pearcei Savage and Waters
1979Tetonoides pearcei Bown
1981Tetonoides pearcei Gingerich
1984Anemorhysis pearcei Bown and Rose
1987Anemorhysis pearcei Bown and Rose
1992Tetonoides pearcei Beard et al.
1995Tetonoides pearcei Gunnell
1995Anemorhysis pearcei Rose

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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()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
Euarchonta
orderPrimates
infraorderHaplorhini(Pocock 1918)
infraorderTarsiiformesGregory 1915
superfamilyOmomyoidea
familyOmomyidae
subfamilyAnaptomorphinae(Cope 1883)
tribeTetoniina(Abel 1931)
genusTetonoides
speciespearcei

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.

Tetonoides pearcei Gazin 1962
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialf
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealf
Diet: insectivoref
Reproduction: viviparousf
Created: 2005-08-24 13:59:57
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:59:57
Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: Wasatchian or 55.80000 to 50.30000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lysitean - Lostcabinian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Tetonoides sp. (15451)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (Wyoming) Tetonoides pearcei (type locality: 15455 15673 15723 118482 226071)
Wasatchian55.8 - 50.3USA (North Dakota) Tetonoides pearcei (15895)