Pseudictopidae
{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}
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| fossil_range = Paleocene–Eocene, {{Fossil range|61.7|48.6}}
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| taxon = Pseudictopidae
| authority = Sulimski, 1969
| type_genus = †Pseudictops
| type_genus_authority = Matthew, Granger & Simpson, 1929
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = * †Allictops
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Pseudictopidae is an extinct family of mammals closely related to rodents and lagomorphs. Members of the family are known from Paleocene to Eocene deposits in China and Mongolia.{{Cite book |last=Carroll |first=Robert L. |url=http://archive.org/details/vertebratepaleon0000carr |title=Vertebrate paleontology and evolution |date=1988 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Freeman |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7167-1822-2}}
Taxonomic history
The family Pseudictopidae was erected in 1969 by Andrez Sulimsky as a monotypic family, with Pseudictops as the type and only genus, though later authors would assign more genera to the family. Sulimsky tentatively assigned Pseudictopidae to Eutheria incertae sedis, believing that it and Anagalidae were representatives of an unknown order.{{Cite journal |last=Sulimski |first=Andrzej |date=1969 |title=Paleocene genus 'Pseudictops' Matthew, Granger and Simpson 1929 (Mammalia) and its revision |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1968-19_101-129_10-14.pdf |format=PDF |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |pages=101–129}} In 1971, Szalay and McKenna erected the order Anagalida, to which Pseudictopidae was assigned.{{Cite journal |last=Szalay |first=Frederick |last2=McKenna |first2=Malcolm |date=June 1971 |title=Beginning of the Age of Mammals in Asia: the Late Paleocene Gashato fauna, Mongolia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281577470 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=144 |issue=4 |pages=269–318}}
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Category:Prehistoric mammal families
Category:Paleocene first appearances
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