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''Ectoganus'' is a fossil genus of
mammals Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fu ...
belonging to the family
Stylinodontidae Taeniodonta ("banded teeth") is an extinct early group of cimolestid mammals known from the Maastrichtian to the Eocene. Taeniodonts evolved quickly into highly specialized digging animals, and varied greatly in size, from rat-sized to species ...
. The species of this genus are found in Northern America. Species: * '' Ectoganus bighornensis'' Schoch, 1981 * '' Ectoganus copei'' Schoch, 1981 * '' Ectoganus gliriformis'' Cope, 1874


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q22443087 Cimolestans Prehistoric mammal genera