Phenacodus
Genus of mammals (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Phenacodus (Greek: "deception" (phenax), "tooth' (odus)[2]) is an extinct genus of mammals from the late Paleocene through middle Eocene, about 55 million years ago. It is one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulates, typifying the family Phenacodontidae and the order Perissodactyla.
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Phenacodus | |
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P. primaevus skeleton at American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Phenacodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Phenacodontinae |
Genus: | †Phenacodus Cope, 1873 |
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Synonyms | |
Trispondylus Cope, 1884 |
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