Final species Flashcards
Midterm 1 baddies
Permian
- synapsids - dimetrodon
- therapsids - gorgonopsid
Triassic
- Cynodonts - developed sec pallete
- mammaliaformes
Morganucodon - almost full mammalian jaw joing
Sinoconodon - similar to morganucodon
Jurassic
- Hadrocodium - full mammalian jaw joint
-Juramaia
Cretaceous
- Eomaia
KT extinction
- Cimolestes - base of terrestrial carnivory
Paleocene
- condylartha
Multituberculates
Eocene
- Carnivora
Miocene
- Thylacosmilus, barburofelus
Pliocene - Dinofelis, Smilodon
Pleistocene - solenodon, thylacine, pachycrocuta
Whales
Andrewsarchus - paleocene
Pakicetus - paleocene
Ambulocetus - eocene
Remingtonocetus - river dolphin
Rhodocetus - salt water - basically fully aquatic
Basilosaurus - fully aquatic - tiny hindlimbs
Dorudon
Pinnepeds
Puijila darwini - miocene
Enaliarctos - oligocene miocene
Bats
Icaronycteris index - from eocene
Onychonycteris finneyi - also eocene
Dermoptera
Planetethrium - paleocene
Rodents
Ceratogaulus - Miocene - horned gopher
Various giant capybara species from the Pliocene
Lagomorphs
Gomphos - eocene
SA
Xenarthra - Megatherids - oligocene - eremotherium and megatherium
Notoungulata - toxodonts - toxodon - eocene - pleistocene
- mixotoxodon
- homalotherium
- notohippidae - eocene - horse adaptations way before horses
Typotheria
- interatheridae - miocene - tooth comb
- mesotheridae - rodent like
Litopterna - macrauchenia - camel like hindgut fermenter - pleistocene
Proboscids
Desmostylus - late oligocene last ancestor of proboscids and sirenia
Barytherium - late eocene early oligocene
Phosphatherium - paleocene
Mastodons often convergent with mammoths
Mastodons - miocene
Gomphothres - miocene
Mammoths - pleistocene
Horses
Hyracotherium - eocene
Mesohippus - oligocene
Miohippus - oligocene
Merychippus - miocene
Equus
Other perissodactyla
Brontothere - eocne similar to rhinos but related to horses
Chalicothere - ground sloth but horse
Paraceratherium - oligocene - giant mf
Elasmotherium - eocene
Wooly rhino - miocene
Phenacodus - sheep size from paleocene
Artiodactyla
Micromeryx - tiny deer from miocene
Megalocerous - irish elk pleistocene
sivatherium - miocene pleistocene giraffe
Primates
Purgatorius - paleocene - arboreal movement
Plesiadapis - paleocene
Eosimias centennicus - eocene
Capolestes - small paleocene similar to multituberculates
Humans
Australopithecis afarensis - 3.9-2.9 mya
Homo habilis - 2.4-1.7 mya
Homo heidelbergensis 600,000 to 300,000 ya
Homo erectus 2mya - 100,000 ya
Homo neanderthalis 150,000 - 40,000 ya
