Dermoptera after McKenna & Bell 1997

 
<==o DERMOPTERA (keguaanit & suurlepakot)
   |?- †Thylacaelurus [Thylacaelurinae]
   |-- †Paromomyidae
   `--+-- †Plagiomenidae
      `--+--o †Mixodectidae
         |  |?- †Eudaemonema cuspidata
         |  |-- †Dracontolestes aphantus
         |  `--o †Mixodectes Cope, 1883
         |     |-- †M. malaris (Cope, 1883) Matthew, 1937 [Indrodon malaris Cope, 1883; Oxyacodon tecumsae Van Valen, 1978]
         |     `-- †M. pungens Cope, 1883 [Mixodectes crassiusculus Cope, 1883; Olbodotes copei Osborn, 1902]
         `--+?- MEGACHIROPTERA sensu Pettigrew et al., 1989 (suurlepakot)
            `--o Cynocephalidae [Galeopithecidae] (varsinaiset keguaanit)
               |-- †Dermotherium
               `--o Cynocephalus (keguaanit)
                  |-- C. volans (kaguaani)
                  `-- C. variegatus (täpläkaguaani)

Reference(s):

       Alroy, J., 2002: North American fossil mammal systematics database.
--iNet: North American fossil mammal systematics database: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/nafmsd.html

       Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
--W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698.

       Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
--W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698.

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

       Pettigrew, J. D., Jamieson, B. G. M., Robson, S. K., Hall, L. S., McAnally, K. I., & Cooper, H. M., 1989: Phylogenetic relations between microbats, megabats and primates (Mammalia: Chiroptera and Primates).
--Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological series, Vol. 325, pp. 489-559

 

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