Xenocranium
Genus of prehistoric burrowing mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xenocranium ("strange skull") is an extinct monotypic genus of placental mammal from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Epoicotheriinae within extinct paraphyletic family Epoicotheriidae in extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the late Eocene.
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Xenocranium | |
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Artist reconstruction of Xenocranium pileorivale compared to the size of a human hand. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
Family: | †Epoicotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Epoicotheriinae |
Genus: | †Xenocranium Colbert, 1942[1] |
Type species | |
†Xenocranium pileorivale Colbert, 1942 |
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