Conoryctidae

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Conoryctidae
Temporal range: 63.8–55.2  Ma
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Early Paleocene - Early Eocene
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skull of Conoryctes comma
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lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Conoryctidae
Wortman, 1896 [1]
Type genus
Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Conoryctinae (Schlosser, 1911) [2]
  • Conoryctini (Winge, 1917) [3]

Conoryctidae ("cone diggers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America and Europe from the early Paleocene to early Eocene. [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

  Placentalia  

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Palaeoryctida

Ambilestes

Procerberidae

Alveugena

  Taeniodonta  

Schowalteria

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Onychodectidae

 Conoryctidae 
  Eurodontinae  
  Eurodon  

Eurodon silveirinhensis

  Conoryctinae  
  Conoryctellini  
  Conoryctella  

Conoryctella dragonensis

Conoryctella pattersoni

  Conoryctini  

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References

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