Escavadodon

Extinct family of mammals

Escavadodon Temporal range: 61.4–60.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ middle Paleocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Palaeanodonta
Family:	†Escavadodontidae Rose & Lucas, 2000
Genus:	†Escavadodon Rose & Lucas, 2000^[1]
Type species
†Escavadodon zygus Rose & Lucas, 2000

Escavadodon ("tooth from Escavada") is an extinct genus of pangolin-like myrmecophagous placental mammals of extinct monotypic family Escavadodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the middle Paleocene.^[1]^[2] It contains a single species, Escavadodon zygus, recovered from the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of genus Escavadodon is shown in the following cladogram:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Ferae

Pan-Carnivora

Pholidotamorpha

Pholidota (sensu stricto)

†Palaeanodonta

†Escavadodontidae

†Escavadodon	†Escavadodon zygus

†Melaniella

†Amelotabes

†Epoicotheriidae

	†Epoicotherium

	†Molaetherium

†Xenocranium

†Epoicotheriinae

†Tetrapassalus

†Dipassalus

†Alocodontulum

†Auroratherium

†Pentapassalus

†Tubulodon

†Arcticanodon

†Propalaeanodontinae

†Mylanodon

†Brachianodon

†Palaeanodon

†Metacheiromyinae

	†Metacheiromys

	†Ernanodontidae

(Pholidota sensu lato)

†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade

†Metacheiromyidae

References

^ ^a ^b Rose, Kenneth D.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2000). "An early Paleocene palaeanodont (Mammalia, ?Pholidota) from New Mexico, and the origin of Palaeanodonta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 139–156. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0139:AEPPMP]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
^ Paleobiology Database: Escavadodontidae basic info.
^ Kenneth D. Rose (2008). "Palaeanodonta and Pholidota". In Janis, Christine M; Gunnell, Gregg F; Uhen, Mark D (eds.). 9 - Palaeanodonta and Pholidota. pp. 135–146. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511541438.010. ISBN 9780511541438.
^ Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (4). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media: 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID 1773698. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
^ Kondrashov, Peter; Agadjanian, Alexandre K. (2012). "A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 983–1001. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86059673.

Mammals of clade Pholidotamorpha

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Ferae
Clade: Pholidotamorpha

Pholidotamorpha

Order:
Pholidota

Suborder:
Eupholidota

Superfamily:
Manoidea

Family: Manidae	See in template: Manidae
Family: †Patriomanidae	†Cryptomanis †Patriomanis
Incertae sedis	†Necromanis

Superfamily:
†Eomanoidea

Family: †Eomanidae	†Eomanis

Family:
†Eurotamanduidae

†Eurotamandua

other
representatives

†Euromanis
Incertae sedis	†Pholidota sp. (BC 16’08)

Order:
†Palaeanodonta

Family:
†Epoicotheriidae
(paraphyletic family)

†Alocodontulum
†Amelotabes
†Auroratherium
†Dipassalus
†Tubulodon

Subfamily:
†Epoicotheriinae
(paraphyletic subfamily)

†Pentapassalus †Tetrapassalus
†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade	†Epoicotherium †Molaetherium †Xenocranium

Family:
†Ernanodontidae

†Asiabradypus
†Ernanodon

Family:
†Escavadodontidae

†Escavadodon

Family:
†Metacheiromyidae
(paraphyletic family)

†Brachianodon †Mylanodon
Subfamily: †Metacheiromyinae (paraphyletic subfamily)	†Metacheiromys †Palaeanodon
Subfamily: †Propalaeanodontinae	†Propalaeanodon