Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of
insectivorous stem-pangolins which were endemic to
Asia
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from the middle
Paleocene
The Paleocene, ( ) or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek ''pal ...
to the early
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
, 62.22—55.8
Ma existing for approximately .
Classification and phylogeny
Classification
* Family: †Ernanodontidae
(Ting, 1979)[Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: ''Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level'' in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. ]
** Genus: †''
Asiabradypus''
(Nessov, 1987)
*** †''Asiabradypus incompositus''
(Nessov, 1987)[L. A. Nessov. (1987). ''"Rezultaty poiskov i issledovaniya Melovykh i Rannepaleogenovykh mlekopitayushikh na territorii SSSR esults of searches and investigations of Cretaceous and early Paleogene mammals in the territory of the USSR''. Ezhegodnik Vzezoyuznaya Paleontologicheskiy Obshchevstvo 30:199-218]
** Genus: †''
Ernanodon''
(Ting, 1979)
*** †''Ernanodon antelios''
(Ting, 1979)
Phylogenetic tree
The phylogenetic relationships of Ernanodontidae are shown in the following cladogram:
References
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Palaeanodonta
Prehistoric mammals of Asia
Myrmecophagous mammals
Prehistoric mammal families