Conoryctidae Early | |
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skull of Conoryctes comma | |
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lower jaw fragment of Conoryctella dragonensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
Order: | † Taeniodonta |
Family: | † Conoryctidae Wortman, 1896 [1] |
Type genus | |
† Conoryctes Cope, 1881 | |
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Synonyms | |
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]
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Placentalia |
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