Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of myrmecophagous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in Asia from the middle to late Paleocene.
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
- Family: †Ernanodontidae (Ting, 1979)
- Genus: †Asiabradypus (Nessov, 1987)
- †Asiabradypus incompositus (Nessov, 1987)
- Genus: †Ernanodon (Ting, 1979)
- †Ernanodon antelios (Ting, 1979)
- Genus: †Asiabradypus (Nessov, 1987)
Phylogenetic tree
The phylogenetic relationships of family Ernanodontidae are shown in the following cladogram:
See also
- Mammal classification
- Palaeanodonta
References
