Amphitheriidae

Extinct family of mammals

Amphitheriidae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, 174.7–161.5 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Prototribosphenida
Order: Amphitheriida
Prothero, 1981
Family: Amphitheriidae
Owen, 1846
Genera

Amphitheriidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals restricted to the Middle Jurassic of Britain, with indeterminate members also possibly known from the equivalently aged Itat Formation in Siberia and the Anoual Formation of Morocco. They were members of Cladotheria, more derived than members of Dryolestida, and forming a close relationship with Peramuridae.[1] Amphitheriidae is the only family of the order Amphitheriida.

Classification

References

  1. ^ Panciroli E; Roger B.J. Benson; Richard J. Butler (2018). "New partial dentaries of amphitheriid mammalian Palaeoxonodon ooliticus from Scotland, and posterior dentary morphology in early cladotherians". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.00434.2017.

Further reading

  • Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 14,395.
  • Close RA., Davis BM., Walsh S., Wolniewicz AS., Friedman M. and Benson RB. 2016. A lower jaw of Palaeoxonodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the diversity of British stem therians. Palaeontology, 59, 155-169
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Cynodontia
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Mammalia
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Australosphenida?
Henosferidae
Ausktribosphenidae
Monotremata
Kollikodontidae?
Steropodontidae
Teinolophidae
Ornithorhynchoidea
Opalionidae
Ornithorhynchidae
Tachyglossidae
Allotheria?
Theriimorpha
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Steropodon galmani

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Tachyglossus aculeatus
Gobiconodontidae
Jeholodentidae
Klameliidae?
  • Ferganodon
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Triconodontidae
Volaticotheria
Tinodontidae
  • Gobiotheriodon?
  • Tinodon
  • Trishulotherium
  • Yermakia
Trechnotheria
Zhangheotheriidae
Spalacotheriidae
Cladotheria
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Repenomamus robustus Volaticotherium antiquum
Dryolestida
Dryolestidae
Meridiolestida
  • Amarillodon
  • Austrotriconodon
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  • Lakotalestes?
  • Paraungulatum
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Cronopioidea
Mesungulatoidea
Donodontidae
  • Amazighodon
  • Anoualestes
  • Donodon
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Amphitheriidae
Peramuridae
Tribosphenida /
Boreosphenida
Theria
Eutheria
Metatheria
Cronopio dentiacutus Eomaia scansoria
Other taxa
Incertae sedis
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Taxon identifiers
Amphitheriidae


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