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Notioprogonia is a suborder of the extinct mammalian order Notoungulata and includes two families, Henricosborniidae and Notostylopidae.〔. Retrieved April 2013.〕 Notioprogonia includes the most primitive notoungulates and has argued that Notioprogonia is paraphyletic because it would include the ancestors of the remaining suborders. Notioprogonia is not a natural group but an assemblage of primitive notoungulates; the two families assigned here simply do not clearly belong to any other clades. ==Description== Henricosborniids such as ''Henricosbornia'' and ''Othnielmarshia'' from the late Paleocene (Itaboraian-Casamayoran SALMA) have generalized, low-crowned teeth with the dental formula and are dentally the most primitive notoungulates, most likely located near the origin of all other notoungulates. ''Simpsonotus'', also from the late Paleocene and geologically the oldest notoungulate, provides us with the only known Henricoborniid skull. It lacks an epitympanic sinus and a tympanic crest, auditory specializations that are considered synapomorphic of notoungulates, which suggests that these features evolved within notoungulates. ''Simpsonotus'' Notostylopids such as the Casamayoran ''Notostylops'' and ''Boreastylops'' are slightly more derived than henricoborniids. Their dentition make them superficially similar to early primate-like (non-South American) mammals such as ''Plesiadapis''.〔 Arctostylopidae, a family known from the northern hemisphere, was previously included in Notioprogonia, but their resemblance to notoungulates is now believed to be convergent.〔 included Arctostylopidae when he first described Notioprogonia, and explained: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Notioprogonia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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