Pentacodontidae

Pentacodontidae; Temporal range: 63.8–50.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to late Paleocene
	mandibula of Aphronorus fraudator
	mandibula of Bisonalveus browni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Mirorder:	Ferae (?)
Order:	†Pantolesta
Family:	†Pentacodontidae; Simpson, 1937
Type genus
	†Pentacodon; Scott, 1892
Genera
	†Aphronorus; †Bisonalveus; †Coriphagus; †Eurolestes; †Pentacodon;
Synonyms
	Pentacodontinae (Simpson, 1937);

Pentacodontidae ("teeth with five points") is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America and Europe^[2] from the early to late Paleocene.^[3]^[4]

Classification and phylogeny

Family: †Pentacodontidae (Simpson, 1937) Genus: †Aphronorus (Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus bearspawensis (Scott, 2013) †Aphronorus fraudator (Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus orieli (Gazin, 1969) †Aphronorus ratatoski (Winterfeld, 1982) †Aphronorus simpsoni (Gazin, 1938) Genus: †Bisonalveus (Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus browni (Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus gracilis (Fox & Scott, 2020) †Bisonalveus holtzmani (Gingerich, 1983) Genus: †Coriphagus (Douglass, 1908) †Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew & Granger, 1921) †Coriphagus montanus (Douglass, 1908) Genus: †Eurolestes (De Bast & Smith, 2016) †Eurolestes dupuisi (De Bast & Smith, 2016) Genus: †Pentacodon (Scott, 1892) †Pentacodon inversus (Cope, 1888) †Pentacodon occultus (Matthew, 1937)

↑ G. G. Simpson (1937.) "The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas." Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287
↑ Eric De Bast; Thierry Smith (2016). "The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (9): 741–785. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1237582. S2CID 89203431.
↑ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
↑ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Pentacodontidae

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