Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Main Groups of Non-Therian Mammals   Dryolestida

After McKenna & Bell, 1997, Rougier, Novacek, Pascual & Gelfo, 2000 and Gelfo & Pascual, 2001

<==o †Dryolestida Prothero, 1981
   |?- †Menacodon rarus
   |?- †Parungulatum rectangularis Bonaparte, 1999
   |?-o †Symmetrodontoides Fox, 1979 [sensu Bonaparte, 1999, has been treated as a Spalacotheroid by Cifelli, Wible & Jenkins jr., 1998.]
   |  |-- †S. foxi Cifelli & Madsen, 1986
   |  |-- †S. canadensis Fox, 1979
   |  `-- †S. oligodentos Cifelli, 1990c
   |?-o †Casamiqueliidae Bonaparte, 1999
   |  |?- †Casamiquelia Bonaparte, 1990 [after Averianov, 2002]
   |  |-- †Rougiertherium tricuspes Bonaparte, 1999
   |  `-- †Alamitherium bishopi Bonaparte, 1999
   |-- †Donodon Sigogneau-Russell, 1991 [Donodontidae Sigogneau-Russell, 1991]
   `--+--+-- †Peligrotherium tropicalis Bonaparte, Van Valen & Kramartz, 1993 [Peligotheriidae Bonaparte, Van Valen & Kramartz, 1993]
      |  `-- †Mesungulatum houssayi Bonaparte & Soria, 1985 [Mesungulatidae Bonaparte, 1986]
      `--+-- †Reigitherium bunodontum Bonaparte, 1990 [Reigitheriidae Bonaparte, 1990] [is a docodont, not dryolestoid (Pascual, Goin, Gonzalez, Ardolino & Puerta, 2000)]
         `--+-- †Brandonia Bonaparte, 1992 [Brandoniidae Bonaparte, 1992]
            `--+-- †Paurodontidae Marsh, 1887 [non Paurodontidae Thorne, 1941, a nematode-family (Dykes, 2001)]
               `-- †Dryolestidae Marsh, 1879

Reference(s):

Bonaparte, J. F., 1999: New Dryolestida (Theria) from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation (Argentina) and paleogeographical comments. A11
in Leanza, H. A., (ed.) 1999: Abstracts of VII International Symposium on Mezosoic Terrestrial Ecosystems.
–VII International Symposium on Mezosoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Buenos Aires, 1999, A1-A65

Dykes, T., 2001: Paurodontidae and Dryolestidae.
–iNet: Mesozoic mammals – an internet directory: http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/dryolest.htm

Gelfo, J. N. & Pascual, R., 2001: Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Dryolestida) from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, a survival from a Mesozoic Gondwanan radiation.
–Geodiversitas: Vol. 23, #3, pp. 369-379

McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631

Rougier, G. W., Novacek, M. J., Pascual, R. & Gelfo, J. N., 2000: New Late Creteceous mammals from Argentina and the survival of Mesozoic lineages in the patagonian Early Tertiary.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #3, suppl. to #3, 65A

Pascual, R., Goin, F.J., González, P., Ardolino, A. & Puerta, P.F., 2000: A highly derived docodont from the Patagonian Late Cretaceous: Evolutionary implications for Gondwanan mammals.
–Geodiversitas: Vol. 22, #3, pp. 395-414.