Wortmania

{{Short description|Genus of extinct mammal from the Paleocene}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|64.7|63.8}} Early Paleocene

|image = Wortmania otariidens recon.png

|image_caption = Wortmania otariidens
A - illustration of skull
B - illustration of skeleton
C - life reconstruction

|taxon = Wortmania

|parent_authority = Schoch, 1982Schoch, R. M. (1982.) "Phylogeny, classification and paleobiology of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria)." Third North Am. Paleontol. Conv. Proc. 2: 465-70

|authority = Hay, 1899{{cite journal|author=O. P. Hay |title= "On the Names of Certain North American Fossil Vertebrates."|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.9.225.593 |journal=Science|date=1899|volume=9|issue=225|pages=593–594|doi= 10.1126/science.9.225.593|pmid= 17772698|bibcode= 1899Sci.....9..593H|url-access=subscription}}

|type_species = †Wortmania otariidens

|type_species_authority = Cope, 1885{{cite journal | url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/273958 | doi=10.1086/273958 | title=Geology and Palaeontology | journal=The American Naturalist | date=1885 | volume=19 | issue=5 | pages=492–497 | url-access=subscription }}

|synonyms =

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|Hemiganus {{small|(Wortman, 1897)}}

|Robertschochia {{small|(Lucas, 2011)}}{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer G. |title=Robertschochia, a new name for the Paleocene mammal Schochia Lucas and Williamson, 1993 |year=2011 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=85 |issue=6 |pages=1216–1217 |s2cid=128401699 |doi=10.1666/11-006.1|bibcode=2011JPal...85.1216L }}

|Schochia {{small|(Lucas & Williamson, 1993)}}{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer G. |last2=Williamson |first2=Thomas E. |title=A New Taeniodont from the Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |year=1993 |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=175–179 |jstor=1381918 |doi=10.2307/1381918}}

}}

{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of species:

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=W. otariidens:

|Hemiganus otariidens {{small|(Cope, 1885)}}

|Robertschochia sullivani {{small|(Lucas, 2011)}}

|Schochia sullivani {{small|(Lucas & Williamson, 1993)}}

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Wortmania ("Wotman's animal"){{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Theodore Sherman |title=Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88553#page/9/mode/1up |date=1904 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}} is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene.Schoch, Robert M. (1986.) [https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/peabody_museum_natural_history_bulletin/42/ "Systematics, functional morphology and macroevolution of the extinct mammalian order Taeniodonta."] Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, (42).{{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}}S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and T. E. Williamson (1998.) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233904689_Taeniodonta "Taeniodonta".] In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=I-RgojcDyWYC "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals"], Cambridge University Press, 703 pages{{Cite journal |last1=Williamson |first1=T. E. |last2=Brusatte |first2=S. L. |editor1-last=Viriot |editor1-first=Laurent |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 |date=2013 |volume=8 |issue=9 |pages=e75886 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0075886 |pmid=24098738 |pmc=3786969 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...875886W |doi-access=free}}

Phylogeny

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|label1=Placentalia

|1={{clade

|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={{clade

|1=†Conoryctidae

|2=†Onychodectidae

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|2={{clade

|label1=†Stylinodontoidea

|1={{clade

|label1=†Stylinodontidae

|1={{clade

|thickness2=2

|1=†Stylinodontinae 70px

|label2=†Wortmaniinae

|2={{clade

|thickness=2 |label1=†Wortmania

|1={{clade

|thickness=2

|1=†Wortmania otariidens 70px

|label2=?|state2=dotted

|2=†Wortmania sp. (Garfield County, Montana)

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References

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Category:Taeniodonta

Category:Prehistoric mammal genera

Category:Paleocene genus extinctions

Category:Paleocene mammals of North America

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