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Plesiadapis
Taxonomy
Plesiadapis was named by Gervais (1877). It is not extant. Its type is Plesiadapis tricuspidens. It is the type genus of Plesiadapidae.
It was assigned to Lemuridae by Schlosser (1877); and to Plesiadapidae by Gervais (1877), Matthew (1917), Hay (1930), Simpson (1936), Simpson (1937), Simpson (1940), Gingerich (1973), Gingerich (1975), Rose and Bown (1982), Gunnell (1989) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Lemuridae by Schlosser (1877); and to Plesiadapidae by Gervais (1877), Matthew (1917), Hay (1930), Simpson (1936), Simpson (1937), Simpson (1940), Gingerich (1973), Gingerich (1975), Rose and Bown (1982), Gunnell (1989) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
P. (Ancepsoides), P. (Tricuspidens), P. anceps (syn. P. jepseni), P. berruensis, P. chevillionii, P. churchilli, P. cookei, P. dubius (syn. P. rubeyi, P. pearcei), P. fodinatus (syn. P. farisi), P. gingerichi, P. insignis, P. ploegi, P. praecursor, P. recticuspidens, P. remensis, P. rex (syn. P. paskapooensis), P. russelli, P. simonsi, P. tricuspidens (syn. P. (Tricuspidens) gervaisii, Platychoerops georgei) (type species), P. walbeckensis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1877 | Plesiadapis Gervais |
1877 | Plesiadapis Schlosser p. 47 |
1880 | Plesiadapis chevillionii Lemoine p. 588 |
1887 | Plesiadapis (Tricuspidens) Lemoine p. 192 |
1915 | Nothodectes Matthew |
1917 | Nothodectes Matthew p. 831 |
1917 | Plesiadapis Matthew p. 833 |
1930 | Nothodectes Hay p. 446 |
1930 | Plesiadapis Hay p. 446 |
1936 | Plesiadapis Simpson p. 19 |
1937 | Plesiadapis Simpson p. 167 |
1940 | Menatotherium Piton p. 290 |
1940 | Plesiadapis Simpson p. 202 |
1964 | Plesiadapis (Ancepsoides) Russell p. 115 |
1973 | Plesiadapis Gingerich p. 517 |
1975 | Plesiadapis Gingerich p. 141 |
1982 | Plesiadapis Rose and Bown p. 66 |
1989 | Plesiadapis Gunnell p. 147 |
1997 | Plesiadapis McKenna and Bell |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Plesiadapis Gervais 1877
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†Plesiadapis berruensis Jehle et al. 2018
†Plesiadapis churchilli Gingerich 1975
†Plesiadapis cookei Jepsen 1930
†Plesiadapis dubius Matthew 1915
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Invalid names: Plesiadapis pearcei Gazin 1956 [synonym], Plesiadapis rubeyi Gazin 1942 [synonym]
†Plesiadapis gingerichi Rose 1981
†Plesiadapis insignis Piton 1940
†Plesiadapis ploegi De Bast et al. 2018
†Plesiadapis praecursor Gingerich 1975
†Plesiadapis recticuspidens Lemoine 1878
†Plesiadapis remensis Lemoine 1887
†Plesiadapis russelli Gingerich 1976
†Plesiadapis simonsi Gingerich 1975
†Plesiadapis tricuspidens Gervais 1877
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Invalid names: Platychoerops georgei Hooker 1994 [synonym], Plesiadapis (Tricuspidens) gervaisii Lemoine 1887 [synonym]
†Plesiadapis walbeckensis Russell 1964
Invalid names: Menatotherium Piton 1940 [synonym], Nothodectes Matthew 1915 [synonym], Plesiadapis (Ancepsoides) Russell 1964 [invalid subgroup], Plesiadapis (Tricuspidens) Lemoine 1887 [invalid subgroup], Plesiadapis chevillionii Lemoine 1880 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Collections (189 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Danian | USA (North Dakota) | P. rex (14962) | |
Torrejonian - Tiffanian | USA (Wyoming) | P. sp. (14852 14854) | |
Ti1 | Canada (Alberta) | P. anceps, P. praecursor (14939) P. sp., P. praecursor (14938 195856) | |
Ti1 | USA (Montana) | P. praecursor (15026) | |
Ti3 | Canada (Alberta) | P. rex (14928) | |
Ti4 | Canada (Saskatchewan) | P. churchilli (14978) | |
Ti5 | USA (Wyoming) | P. simonsi (46654) | |
Tiffanian | USA (Montana) | P. anceps (14955 14993 15002 15064) P. churchilli (15033 15048) P. praecursor (15025) P. rex (14937 15037) | |
Tiffanian | USA (Colorado) | P. fodinatus (174227) | |
Tiffanian | USA (California) | P. anceps (143202) P. churchilli (143201) P. sp. (14963) P. sp., P. anceps (14872) | |
Tiffanian | USA (Wyoming) | P. anceps (15061 15062) P. churchilli (14952 14980 14981 14982 14986 190424 190425 190436 190442 190452 190489) P. churchilli, P. fodinatus (15007 15049 15059 85096 190410 190423) P. dubius (190413 190418 190419 190420 190443 190457 190459 190462 190463 190468 190476 190477 190478 190479 190481) P. dubius, P. gingerichi (190412 190417) P. farisi (15036) P. fodinatus (14944 14974 14979 14997 14999 15001 15032 15065 26569 53059 190421 190429 190437 190438 190444 190448 190469 190473 190475 190488 190490) P. fodinatus, P. simonsi (15057) P. jepseni (14989) P. jepseni, P. fodinatus (14964) P. praecursor (15013 15014 15015) P. rex (14926 14936 15017 15031 15060) P. simonsi (87907 190402 190403 190406 190411) P. sp. (15056 15058 15067) P. sp. A (15034) | |
Tiffanian | USA (North Dakota) | P. anceps (15006) P. rex (14931) P. sp. (14927 14977) P. sp., P. fodinatus (15000) | |
Tiffanian | Canada (Alberta) | P. churchilli (14951) P. fodinatus (14973) P. gidleyi (14995) P. rex (14949 14954) | |
Tiffanian - Clarkforkian | USA (Wyoming) | P. dubius (15035) | |
Selandian | Germany (Saxony-Anhalt) | P. walbeckensis (74643) | |
Thanetian | France (Champagne-Ardenne) | P. tricuspidens (87955 137125) P. tricuspidens, P. remensis (87925 87943 137126) P. tricuspidens, P. remensis, P. berruensis (68428) | |
Thanetian | France (Auvergne) | P. insignis (137805) | |
Thanetian - Early/Lower Eocene | France (Marne) | P. remensis, Platychoerops georgei (133367) | |
Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | P. churchilli (15024) P. churchilli, P. fodinatus (15018) P. dubius, P. simonsi (188220) | |
Late/Upper Paleocene | France (Oise) | P. tricuspidens, Condylarthra indet. (166598) | |
Cf1 | USA (Wyoming) | P. gingerichi (46649) | |
Cf2 | USA (Wyoming) | P. dubius (46651 46679) | |
Cf3 | USA (Wyoming) | P. dubius (46678) | |
Clarkforkian | USA (Colorado) | P. dubius (15239 15241 15247 15252 15257) | |
Clarkforkian | USA (Wyoming) | Chiromyoides major, P. sp., P. sp. (15216) P. cookei (15085 15087 15094 15099 15100 15111 15115 15118 15119 15120 15126 15137 15150 15151 15152 15154 15155 15156 15159 15175 15186 15191 15202 15218) P. cookei, P. dubius (15072 15080 15082 15092) P. cookei, P. dubius, P. gingerichi (15089) P. cookei, P. rubeyi, P. pearcei (15075) P. dubius (15109 15124 15132 15142 15168 15178 15212 164513) P. dubius, P. gingerichi (15176 15183 15204 15213) P. fodinatus (15028) P. gingerichi (15210 190455) | |
Clarkforkian | USA (Montana) | P. dubius (15079) | |
Ypresian | Belgium (Brabant) | Platychoerops daubrei (35531) | |
Ypresian | United Kingdom (England) | P. tricuspidens, Platychoerops georgei (133368) | |
Ypresian | Belgium (Hainaut) | P. remensis (87947) | |
Ypresian | France (Marne) | P. remensis (35537) | |
Ypresian | France (Île-de-France) | P. russelli (68437) | |
Ypresian | United Kingdom | P. remensis (87950) | |
Wasatchian | USA (Wyoming) | P. dubius (15898) |