Cadurcodon Temporal range: Eocene-Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Amynodontidae |
Genus: | †Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942 |
Type species | |
†Cadurcodon ardynensis Osborn, 1924 | |
Species | |
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Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China. It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls.
References
- "Fossilworks: Cadurcodon ardynensis". fossilworks.org.
- Wall, William P. (1980). "Cranial Evidence for a Proboscis in Cadurcodon and a Review of Snout Structure in the Family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)". Journal of Paleontology. 54 (5): 968–977. JSTOR 1304363 – via JSTOR.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Cadurcodon |
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