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Psittacotherium ("parrot beast")
[7]
is an
extinct
genus of
taeniodonts from extinct tribe Psittacotheriini within subfamily
Stylinodontinae and family
Stylinodontidae , that lived in
North America from early to late
Paleocene .
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12] With a weight between 35.6 kg (78 lb) and 71.2 kg (157 lb),
[8] a length of 1.125 m (3 ft 8.3 in),
[8] it had similar size of a large
dog .
[13]
Phylogeny
References
^ E. D. Cope (1882.)
"A new genus of Tillodonta." The American Naturalist 16:156-157
^ Schoch, R. M. (1982.) "Phylogeny, classification and paleobiology of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria)." Third North Am. Paleontol. Conv. Proc. 2: 465-70
^ J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
^ E. D. Cope (1882.)
"A new form of Taeniodonta." The American Naturalist 16:831-832
^ E. D. Cope (1882)
"Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 20 (111): 139–197
^ E. D. Cope (1887.) "Some new Taenidonta of the Puerco." Am. Nat. 21: 469
^ Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904).
Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals . U.S. Government Printing Office.
^
a
b
c Schoch, Robert M. (1986.)
"Systematics, functional morphology and macroevolution of the extinct mammalian order Taeniodonta." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, (42).
^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997).
Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level . New York: Columbia University Press.
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978-0-231-11012-9 . Retrieved 16 March 2015 .
^ S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and T. E. Williamson (1998.)
"Taeniodonta". In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.),
"Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals" , Cambridge University Press, 703 pages
^ Williamson, T. E.; Brusatte, S. L. (2013). Viriot, Laurent (ed.).
"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" . PLOS ONE . 8 (9): e75886.
Bibcode :
2013PLoSO...875886W .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0075886 .
PMC
3786969 .
PMID
24098738 .
^
"Psittacotherium " . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2021-08-13 .
^
"Paleocene mammals of the world" . www.paleocene-mammals.de . Archived from
the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022 .