Leptictis

Leptictis is an extinct genus of lepticitid mammal alive during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene periods.[1] The type species, L. haydeni, was named in 1868 by Joseph Leidy in honour of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. L. dakotensis was also named by Leidy in 1868, but he originally named it as a separate species, Ictops, which is now seen as the same animal as Lepticitis. Since then, six other species have been named.[2][3]

Leptictis
Temporal range: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 37.2–30.8 Ma
Leptictis cf. acutidens
Restoration of a Leptictis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Leptictida
Family:
†Leptictidae
Genus:
†Leptictis

Leidy, 1868
Type species
†Lepticitis haydeni
Leidy, 1868
Species
  • †L. acutidens
  • †L. (Ictops) dakotensis
  • †L. douglassi
  • †L. haydeni
  • †L. montanus
  • †L. thomsoni
  • †L. wilsoni

References
  1. E. D. Cope. 1873. Third Notice Of Extinct Vertebrata From The Tertiary of the Plains. Paleontological Bulletin 16:1-8
  2. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
  3. Kenneth, D. R. (2006). The postcranial skeleton of early Oligocene Leptictis (Mammalia: Leptictida), with a preliminary comparison to Leptictidium from the middle Eocene of Messel. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 278(1-6), 37–56.


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