†family Adianthidae Ameghino 1891 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Adianthidae

Alternative spellings: Adiantidae, Adiantinae

Parent taxon: Litopterna according to R. L. Cifelli and M. F. Soria 1983

See also Ameghino 1894, Ameghino 1897, Bond and Vucetich 1983, Carroll 1988, Cifelli 1983, Jaekel 1911 and Simpson et al. 1962

Sister taxa: Eolicaphrium, Eolitopterna, Lambdaconus elegans, Lopholipterna, Macraucheniidae, Mesorhinidae, Notonychopidae, Paulogervaisia celata, Proacrodon, Proacrodon transformatus, Proadiantus gibbus, Proterotheriidae, Protolipternidae, Sparnotheriodontidae, Thoatheriopsis

Subtaxa: Adianthinae Indaleciinae Proheptoconus

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Type: Adianthinae

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (4 collections), Chile (1)

• Deseadan of Argentina (2), Bolivia (2)

• Oligocene of Chile (1), Peru (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (4)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 16 collections including 21 occurrences

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