Isotemnidae

Isotemnidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Paleocene (Las Flores Formation, Itaboraian) to Middle Miocene (Honda Group, Laventan) of South America.^[1]

Isotemnidae Temporal range: Late Paleocene-Middle Miocene (Itaboraian-Laventan) ~59.0–11.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Thomashuxleya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Suborder:	†Toxodontia
Family:	†Isotemnidae Ameghino 1897
Genera
†Anisotemnus †Coelostylodon †Distylophorus †Hedralophus †Isotemnus †Lophocoelus †Pampatemnus †Periphragnis †Pleurocoelodon †Pleurostylodon †Rhyphodon †Thomashuxleya

References

1. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8

Further reading

• Goin, F. J.; Candela, A.M.; Abello, M.A.; Oliveira, E.V. (2009), "Earliest South American paucituberculatans and their significance in the understanding of 'pseudodiprotodont' marsupial radiations", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 155 (4): 867–884, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00471.x, retrieved 2019-02-15
• M. McKenna. 1956. Survival of primitive Notoungulates and Condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Science 254:736-743