...Fig. 4. Phylogenetic relationships of members of the Palaeoryctidae as proposed by (A) Bloch et al. (2004) and (B) Gunnell et al. (2008) , and (C) the resultant tree based on an exhaustive phylogenetic analysis of 32 dental characters of Aceroryctes dulcis gen. et sp. nov., other North...

... cerberoides exhibits a distinctive molar wear pattern that emphasized horizontal grinding, not orthal shear; Scollardius propalaeoryctes , the smallest species in this revision and having hyper-faunivorous molars, was not ancestral to Paleogene Palaeoryctidae, as indicated in part by contradictions...

... Palaeoryctidae. On décrit ici des mammifères euthériens de la formation d'Oldman du Crétacé supérieur. Dans cet article on décrit : le proteuthérien leptictidé Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni, qui a cinq prémolaires et était probablement l'ancêtre direct de la lignée de G . hypoconus Simpson du Lancien; un...

... other palaeoryctid thus far described. 27 08 2003 The Paleontological Society 2004 As recognized by McKenna and Bell (1997) , the family Palaeoryctidae (Mammalia: Eutheria) includes three genera, Palaeoryctes Matthew, 1913 (Paleocene and Eocene), Aaptoryctes Gingerich, 1982...

...-bodied species of the family Cimolestidae (equivalent in part to the Palaeoryctidae of some other authors) but also noted its place in a gradient of size and dental characteristics from Cimolestes to Procerberus to Alveugena to the taeniodonts. Temporally, Alveugena at earliest middle Puercan...

...Figure 2. Photographs of selected specimens of leptictid, palaeoryctid, and other proteutherian placental mammals from Ferris Formation, all in occlusal view. A , UW 26571, trigonid of deciduous Lp4 of Gypsonictops sp.; B , UW 26497, Rm2 of Palaeoryctidae gen. and sp. indet.; C , UW...

..., dorsal view; 4, anterior view; 5, ventral view. Scale bar equals 1 mm Mammals. Palaeoryctidae: Deccanolestes hislopi ; Deccanolestes cf. D. hislopi ; Deccanolestes robustus . Sudamericidae: Gen. et sp. indet. Reptiles. Theropoda: Gen. et sp. indet. Alligatoridae: Gen. et sp. indet...

...., Zalambdalestes , Pantolestidae, Leptictidae, Palaeoryctidae, Mixodectidae). The suite of primitive characters possessed by insectivorans prompted Matthew ( 1909 ) to designate the group as the “central stock” from which other placental mammals ultimately evolved, and while Simpson ( 1937 , 1945 ) echoed...

... from the MHBT Quarry furnish the earliest known evidence of lower molar structure in Carnivora, with a combination of features occurring in no other early Tertiary eutherians having carnivoran-like aspects of the lower molars, including the cimolestan families Cimolestidae Marsh, 1899, Palaeoryctidae...

... . Aaptoryctes (Palaeoryctidae) and Thelysia (Palaeoryctidae?): New insectivorous mammals from the late Paleocene and early Eocene of western North America . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan , 26 : 37 – 47...

... is incompletely preserved and in its morphological feature it is very close to marsupials. D. !z;slopi is an eutherian mammal of tribosphenic nature belonging to the family Palaeoryctidae. In a number of features the teeth are primitive in nature: in having a large W/L ratio, broad stylar shelf, large stylocone...

... . On the Early Biogeographical History of the African Placentals . Historical Biology 4 , 107 – 16 . Gheerbrant , E. 1992 . Les mammifères paléocènes du Bassin d’Ouarzazate (Maroc). I. Introduction générale et Palaeoryctidae . Palaeontographica A 224 , 67 – 132 . Gheerbrant , E...

...Figure 6 — 1–3, Palaeoryctidae gen. and sp. indet., UALVP 44196, Rm1 or m2 in 1, labial, 2, lingual, 3, occlusal view, ×11. 4–6, cf. Procerberus sp., UALVP 44190, Lm3 in 4, labial, 5, lingual, 6, occlusal view, ×8. 7–12, Gelastops sp., UALVP 44191, LP4 in 7, occlusal view...

... Leptictidae Eoictops novaceki , new genus and species Cimolesta Suborder? Palaeoryctidae Palaeoryctid indet. Apatotheria Apatemyidae Apatemys cf. A . whitakeri Pantolesta Pantolestidae Palaeosinopa lacus , new species...

... Parectypodus sylviae Neoplagiaulax nelsoni cf. Mimetodon Cimolodontidae Anconodon sp. Order “Proteutheria” Pantolestidae Paleotomus n. sp. Palaeoryctidae Gelastops sp. cf. G. joni Order Primates Plesiadapidae species and denus indeterminate...