Oxyacodon
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Oxyacodon Temporal range: Cretaceous-Early Paleocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Periptychidae |
Subfamily: | †Conacodontinae |
Genus: | †Oxyacodon Osborn and Earle, 1895 |
Species | |
Oxyacodon is an extinct genus of condylarth of the family Periptychidae endemic to North America during the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene living from 66 to 63.3 mya, existing for approximately 2.7 million years.[1]
Taxonomy
Oxyacodon was named by Osborn and Earle (1895). Its type is Oxyacodon apiculatus. It was assigned to Periptychidae by Osborn and Earle (1895) and Carroll (1988); and to Conacodontinae by Archibald (1998), Eberle (2003) and Middleton and Dewar (2004).
Fossils have been found dating back to the Puercan stage in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan.
References
- Archibald, J.D., Rigby, J.K. Jr., and Robison, S.F. (1983). Systematic revision of Oxyacodon (Condylarthra, Periptychidae) and a description of O. ferronensis n. sp. Journal of Paleontology 57: 53–72.
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