Updated origin of pangolins: from Leptictis
Housekeeping continues
in the mammal subset of the large reptile tree (day 315). This time late Eocene Leptictis was recovered as the ancestor of pangolins (Pholidota), starting with late Eocene Patriomanis (Fig 1).
Figure 1. Patriomanis, a late Eocene almost toothless pangolin, compared to its ancestor in the LRT, Leptictis, also known from Late Eocene fossils. Their last common ancestor was earlier.
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Figure 1. Patriomanis, a late Eocene almost toothless pangolin, compared to its ancestor in the LRT, Leptictis, also known from Late Eocene fossils. Their last common ancestor was earlier. Monodelphis kunsi is that LCA in the LRT.
While seeking earlier pubs on this hypothesis
I came across Gaudin et al 2009. Leptictis was not mentioned in the text nor listed in their cladogram. Instead they cherry-pickekd unrelated Nandinia and Erinaceous.
Cherry-picking unrelated outgroup taxa = bad policy.
References
Gaudin TJ, Emry RJ and Wible JR 2009. The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, (4) 235–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9.
wiki/Manis
wiki/Patriomanus
wiki/Pangolin = Pholidota
wiki/Leptictis
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