Phenacodontinae was a subfamily of small herbivorous mammals that were part of the

Phenacodontidae Phenacodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous mammals traditionally placed in the “wastebasket taxon” Condylarthra, which may instead represent early-stage perissodactyls. They lived from the late early Paleocene to early middle ...

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Genera

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Almogaver ''Almogaver'' is an extinct possible odd-toed ungulate genus in the family Phenacodontidae. It was a ground-dwelling herbivore. It is known from the Tremp Basin in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Sou ...

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Copecion ''Copecion'' was a genus of early herbivorous mammals that was part of the family Phenacodontidae. It reached 6 to 12 kg and was similar in size and morphology to ''Ectocion''. Both these herbivorous ungulates likely occupied similar ecological ni ...

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Eodesmatodon ''Eodesmatodon'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals in the family Aegialodontidae Aegialodontia is a clade of extinct early mammals, close to the origin of Boreosphenida. The clade includes some of the oldest known tribosphenic taxa, u ...

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Phenacodus ''Phenacodus'' (Greek: "deception" (phenax), "tooth' (odus)) is an extinct genus of mammals from the late Paleocene through middle Eocene, about 55 million years ago. It is one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulates, typifying the fa ...

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Phenacodontidae Mammal subfamilies {{paleo-oddtoedungulate-stub