Palaeoamasiidae

Palaeoamasiidae[1]
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
(unranked): Afrotheria
(unranked): Paenungulata
(unranked): Tethytheria
Court 1990[2]
Infraorder: †Embrithopoda
Andrews 1906
Family: †Palaeoamasiidae
Şen & Heintz 1979
Genera

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Palaeoamasiidae or Palaeoamasinae[1] is an extinct taxon of embrithopod mammals that have been found in Romania and Anatolia where they lived on the shores of the Tethys Ocean.

Classification

Notes

  1. 1 2 Palaeoamasidae in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved May 2013.
  2. ↑ N. Court 1990 in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved April 2013.

References

  • Andrews, C.W. (1906). A descriptive catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayûm, Egypt. London: British Museum. OCLC 3675777. 
  • Court, N. (1990). "Periotic anatomy of Arsinoitherium (Mammalia, Embrithopoda) and its phylogenetic implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 (2): 170–82. doi:10.1080/02724634.1990.10011806. OCLC 4899524631. 
  • Maas, M.C.; Thewissen, J.G.M.; Kappelman, J. (1998). "Hypsamasia seni (Mammalia: Embrithopoda) and other mammals from the Eocene Kartal Formation of Turkey". In Beard, K.C.; Dawson, M.R. Dawn of the Age of Mammals in Asia (PDF). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34. pp. 286–297. OCLC 493312921. Retrieved May 2013. 
  • Ozansoy, Fikret (1966). Türkiye Senozoik çağlarında fosil insan formu problemi ve biostratigrafik dayanakları. A.Ü. D.T.C.F. (University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography Publications) 172. Ankara University Press. pp. 1–104. OCLC 16763756. 
  • Radulesco, C.; Iliesco, G.; Iliesco, M. (1976). "Decouverte d'un Embrithopode nouveau (Mammalia) dans la Paléogène de la dépression de Hateg (Roumanie) et considération générales sur la géologie de la région". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1 (11): 690–698. 
  • Şen, Ş.; Heintz, E. (1979). "Palaeoamasia kansui Ozansoy 1966, embrithopode (Mammalia) de l'Eocene de Anatolie". Annales de paléontologie (Vértébres) 65 (1): 73–91. 


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