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Abbreviated Dendrogram
Eutheria
├?──┬─Palaeoryctidae
│ └?─┬─Pantolesta
│ └─Ptolemaiidae
├?──┬─Pantodonta
│ └─Tillodontia
├?─Taeniodonta
├?─Dinocerata
╞?═Creodonts
├─Boreoeutheria
├─Afrotheria
└─Xenarthra
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Pantodonta - Note
Benton, M.J. 2005. Vertebrate palaeontology. 3rd ed. Blackwell Publishing
Taeniodonta
Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp.
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Ptolemaiidae
Colbert, E.H., 1969 Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd ed.
Cope, E. D. 1880. On the genera of the Creodonta. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19 (107): 76-82.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Cope, E. D. 1883. On the mutual relations of the bunotherian Mammalia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 35: 77-83.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Cope, E. D. 1884. The Creodonta. American Naturalist 18 (3): 255-267.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Gheerbrant, E., M. Iarochene, M. Amaghzaz & B. Bouya. 2006. Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta. Geological Magazine 143 (4): 475-489.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Gunnell, G. F. 1998. Creodonta. In Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America vol. 1. Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals (C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott & L. L. Jacobs, eds) pp. 91-109. Cambridge University Press.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
T.S. Kemp (2005) The origin and evolution of mammals p.240, via Wikipedia
Tillodontia
Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., R.L. Cifelli, and Z.-X. Luo. 2004. Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cimolesta
Lucas, S. G. 1998. Pantodonta. In: Janis, C. M., K. M. Scott & L. L. Jacobs (eds) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America vol. 1. Terrestrial carnivores, ungulates, and ungulatelike mammals pp. 274-283. Cambridge University Press.
Pantodonta
McKenna, M.C., and S.K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cimolesta
Polly, P. D. 1996. The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et comb. nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (2): 303-319.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Riff, D. & Kellner, A. W. A. 2001. On the dentition of Baurusuchus pachecoi Price (Crocodyliformes, Metasuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional, 59, 1–15
Pantodonta - Note
Rose, K.D. 2006 The beginning of the age of mammals, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Cimolesta, Pantolestidae
Schoch R.M. 1981 Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the early Tertiary Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria). Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 92-I p. 933-941.
Taeniodonta
Schoch, Robert Milton. 1986. Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta. Bulletin 42. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Taeniodonta
Simons EL, Bown TM (April 1995). "Ptolemaiida, a new order of Mammalia--with description of the cranium of Ptolemaia grangeri". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 92 (8): 3269–73. on line
Ptolemaiidae
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Pantodonta - Note
Van Valen, L. 1969. The multiple origins of the placental carnivores. Evolution 23 (1): 118-130.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek & R. J. Asher. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature 447: 1003-1006. pdf
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek, and R. J. Asher. 2009. The eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of Cretaceous Eutheria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 327: 1-123. pdf
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