Anisonchanus

Anisonchanus; Temporal range: Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
(unranked):	Paraxonia
Family:	†Periptychidae
Genus:	†Anisonchanus; Strand, 1928
Type species
	†Anisonchanus sectorius; (Cope, 1881a)
Synonyms
	Genus synonymy Anisonchus ; Cope, 1881b (preoccupied by Anisonchus Dejean, 1833); ; Species synonymy Mioclaenus sectorius ; Cope, 1881a; Anisonchus sectorius ; (Cope, 1881a); ;

Anisonchanus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived in North America during the Paleocene.

Taxonomy

In 1881, Edward Drinker Cope named the species Mioclaenus sectorius for jaws with teeth from the Puerco Formation of New Mexico.^[2] He reassigned it to the new genus Anisonchus later the same year.^[3] That name was preoccupied by the beetle Anisonchus, which was erected by Pierre F.M.A. Dejean in 1833.^[4]^[a] In 1928, Embrik Strand proposed Anisonchanus as a replacement.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
^ ^a ^b Cope, E.D. (1881a). "Mammalia of the lowest Eocene". The American Naturalist. 15 (10): 829–831. doi:10.1086/272937.
^ ^a ^b Cope, E.D. (1881b). "On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (109): 484–495. JSTOR 982794.
^ ^a ^b Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833–1836). Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris, FR: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 157. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8771.
^ Bousquet, Y.; Bouchard, P. (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.282.4401. PMID 23794836.

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