Wortmania

Wortmania
Temporal range: Early Paleocene
Wortmania otariidens
A - illustration of skull
B - illustration of skeleton
C - life reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: Wortmaniinae
Schoch, 1982
Genus: Wortmania
Hay, 1899
Type species
Wortmania otariidens
Cope, 1885
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Hemiganus (Wortman, 1897)
  • Robertschochia (Lucas, 2011)
  • Schochia (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)
synonyms of species:
  • W. otariidens:
    • Hemiganus otariidens (Cope, 1885)
    • Robertschochia sullivani (Lucas, 2011)
    • Schochia sullivani (Lucas & Williamson, 1993)

Wortmania ("Wotman's animal") is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct subfamily Wortmaniinae within extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America during the early Paleocene.