Conoryctinae

{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|name = Conoryctinae

|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|63.8|60.9}} Early to middle Paleocene

|image = Conoryctes comma.jpg

|image_caption = skull of Conoryctes comma

|image2 = Conoryctella dragonensis.jpg

|image2_caption = lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Conoryctinae

|authority = Wortman, 1896Wortman, J. L. (1896.) [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/4b70829e-058c-4711-9a43-2c01c9737dbd "The Ganodonta and their relationship to the Edentata."] Bulletin of the AMNH; vol. 9, article 6

|type_genus = †Conoryctes

|type_genus_authority = Cope, 1881

|subdivision_ranks = Tribes

|subdivision =

|synonyms =

}}

Conoryctinae ("cone diggers") is an extinct subfamily of taeniodonts from extinct family Conoryctidae, that lived in North America from the early to middle Paleocene.{{Cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Barry |last2=Savage |first2=R.J.G. |last3=Gardiner |first3=Brian |last4=Dixon |first4=Dougal |title=Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals |chapter=Early rooters and browsers |year=1988 |publisher=Macmillan London Limited |isbn=978-0-333-48699-3}}{{cite book |last1=McKenna |first1=Malcolm C. |last2=Bell |first2=Susan K. |title=Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLYifwU8bqQC&pg=PP9 |access-date=16 March 2015 |year=1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-231-11012-9}}{{Cite journal |last1=Williamson |first1=T. E. |last2=Brusatte |first2=S. L. |editor1-last=Viriot |editor1-first=Laurent |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0075886 |title=New Specimens of the Rare Taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Comments on the Phylogeny and Functional Morphology of "Archaic" Mammals |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=8 |issue=9 |pages=e75886 |year=2013 |pmid=24098738 |pmc=3786969 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...875886W |doi-access=free}}

Taxonomy and phylogeny

= Taxonomy =

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{{Tree list}}

  • Subfamily: †Conoryctinae {{small|(Wortman, 1896)}}
  • Tribe: †Conoryctellini {{small|(Schoch, 1982)}}
  • Genus: †Conoryctella {{small|(Gazin, 1939)}}
  • Conoryctella dragonensis {{small|(Gazin, 1939)}}
  • Conoryctella pattersoni {{small|(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)}}
  • Tribe: †Conoryctini {{small|(Wortman, 1896)}}
  • Genus: †Conoryctes {{small|(Cope, 1881)}}
  • Conoryctes comma {{small|(Cope, 1881)}}
  • Genus: †Huerfanodon(paraphyletic genus) {{small|(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)}}
  • Huerfanodon heilprinianus {{small|(Cope, 1882)}}
  • Huerfanodon polecatensis {{small|(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)}}
  • Huerfanodon torrejonius {{small|(Schoch & Lucas, 1981)}}
  • Huerfanodon sp. [USNM 9678] {{small|(Simpson, 1937)}}

{{Tree list/end}}

= Phylogeny =

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|label1=Placentalia

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|1=Atlantogenata 50px

|2=Boreoeutheria 50px

|3=†Palaeoryctida

|4={{clade

|1=†Ambilestes

|2={{clade

|1=†Procerberidae

|2={{clade

|1=†Alveugena

|label2=†Taeniodonta

|2={{clade

|1=†Schowalteria

|2={{clade

|1=†Stylinodontoidea 70px

|2={{clade

|1=†Onychodectidae

|label2=†Conoryctidae

|2={{clade

|thickness2=2

|1=†Eurodontinae

|label2=†Conoryctinae

|2={{clade

|thickness=2 |label1=†Conoryctellini

|1={{clade

|thickness=2 |label1=†Conoryctella

|1={{clade

|thickness=2

|1=†Conoryctella dragonensis

|2=†Conoryctella pattersoni

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|label2=†Conoryctini

|2={{clade

|thickness=2 |grouplabel2={{Uline|c=red|†Huerfanodon}} |color=red

|1=†Huerfanodon heilprinianus |barbegin1=red

|2=†Huerfanodon torrejonius |bar2=red

|label3=?|state3=dotted

|3=†Huerfanodon sp. (USNM 9678) |bar3=red

|4={{clade

|thickness=2 |color=red |color2=black

|1=†Huerfanodon polecatensis |barend1=red

|label2=†Conoryctes

|2=†Conoryctes comma

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References

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Category:Paleocene mammals

Category:Eocene mammals

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