- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Six Marsupialia
- Seven Ptolemaiida
- Eight Macroscelidea
- Nine Tenrecoidea
- Ten Tubulidentata
- Eleven Bibymalagasia (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twelve Embrithopoda
- Thirteen Hyracoidea
- Fourteen Sirenia
- Fifteen Proboscidea
- Sixteen Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Seventeen Rodentia
- Eighteen Lagomorpha
- Nineteen Paleogene Prosimians
- Twenty Later Tertiary Lorisiformes
- Twenty-One Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar
- Twenty-Two Paleogene Anthropoids
- Twenty-Three Cercopithecoidea
- Twenty-Four Dendropithecoidea, Proconsuloidea, and Hominoidea
- Twenty-Five Hominini
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
Bibymalagasia (Mammalia Incertae Sedis)
Bibymalagasia (Mammalia Incertae Sedis)
- Chapter:
- (p.112) (p.113) Eleven Bibymalagasia (Mammalia Incertae Sedis)
- Source:
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
- Author(s):
Lars Werdelin
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The order Bibymalagasia consists of the single genus Plesiorycteropus, with two species, P. madagascariensis and P. germainepetterae. As suggested by the generic name, Plesiorycteropus has traditionally been considered a member of the order Tubulidentata, family Orycteropodidae (aardvarks) ever since its initial description by Filhol. However, MacPhee (1994) carried out an exhaustive anatomical and phylogenetic study of the available material of Plesiorycteropus and found significant cause to question this traditional assignment. Instead, he found that the systematic position of Plesiorycteropus was unstable in his analyses. This gave no reason to believe that Plesiorycteropus was any closer to Tubulidentata than to several other ungulates (sensu lato) and that many of the characters allying Plesiorycteropus with tubulidentates may be functional convergences due to a fossorial lifestyle. As a consequence, MacPhee erected the new order Bibymalagasia for Plesiorycteropus to highlight its uncertain phylogenetic position. This chapter describes the systematic paleontology of Bibymalagasia (Mammalia incertae sedis).
Keywords: Bibymalagasia, Plesiorycteropus, Tubulidentata, Orycteropodidae, aardvarks, paleontology, tubulidentates, ungulates, Mammalia, incertae sedis
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Six Marsupialia
- Seven Ptolemaiida
- Eight Macroscelidea
- Nine Tenrecoidea
- Ten Tubulidentata
- Eleven Bibymalagasia (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twelve Embrithopoda
- Thirteen Hyracoidea
- Fourteen Sirenia
- Fifteen Proboscidea
- Sixteen Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Seventeen Rodentia
- Eighteen Lagomorpha
- Nineteen Paleogene Prosimians
- Twenty Later Tertiary Lorisiformes
- Twenty-One Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar
- Twenty-Two Paleogene Anthropoids
- Twenty-Three Cercopithecoidea
- Twenty-Four Dendropithecoidea, Proconsuloidea, and Hominoidea
- Twenty-Five Hominini
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
