Aceroryctes

Aceroryctes Temporal range: 54.4–54.1  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ early Eocene
lower jaw fragment of Aceroryctes dulcis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia (?)
Order:	† Palaeoryctida
Family:	† Palaeoryctidae
Genus:	† Aceroryctes Rankin & Holroyd, 2014 [1]
Type species
†Aceroryctes dulcis Rankin & Holroyd, 2014 [1]

Aceroryctes ("bitter digger") ^[1] is an extinct genus of mammals from family Palaeoryctidae, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. Type species Aceroryctes dulcis is known from the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming. ^[1]

Phylogeny

Placentalia

† Taeniodonta † Alveugena † Procerberinae † Ambilestes Atlantogenata Boreoeutheria † Palaeoryctida   † Palaeoryctidae   † Pinoryctes ? †Palaeoryctidae sp. (Andarak 2, Osh, Kyrgyzstan) † Nuryctes ? †Palaeoryctidae sp. indet. 1 ? †Palaeoryctidae sp. indet. 2  ?  †Palaeoryctidae sp. (RI 343 & RI 355)  ?   † Palaeoryctes minimus    † Palaeoryctes puercensis    † Palaeoryctinae    † Palaeoryctes jepseni    † Palaeoryctes punctatus    † Palaeoryctes    † Palaeoryctes cruoris    ?   †Palaeoryctes sp. (Roche Percée, Saskatchewan, Canada)   † Aaptoryctes † Eoryctes † Ottoryctes  †Aceroryctes  †Aceroryctes dulcis † Lainoryctes

References

1. Rankin, Brian D.; Holroyd, Patricia A. (7 November 2014). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). "Aceroryctes dulcis, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia, Eutheria) from the early Eocene of the Wasatch Formation of southwestern Wyoming, USA". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . 51 (10): 919–926. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0101. ISSN   0008-4077 . Retrieved 3 June 2025– via Canadian Science Publishing.