''Psittacotherium'' ("parrot beast") is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of taeniodonts from extinct tribe Psittacotheriini within subfamily

Stylinodontinae Stylinodontinae ("teeth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from the early Paleocene to middle Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), ...

and family

Stylinodontidae Stylinodontidae ("teeth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct superfamily Stylinodontoidea within extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America from the early Paleocene to middle Eocene The Eocene ( ...

, that lived in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

from early to late

Paleocene The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...

.Schoch, Robert M. (1986.
"Systematics, functional morphology and macroevolution of the extinct mammalian order Taeniodonta."
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, (42).S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and T. E. Williamson (1998.
"Taeniodonta".
In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.)
"Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals"
Cambridge University Press, 703 pages With a weight between and , and length of , it had similar size of a large

dog The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from a population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. ...

Phylogeny

References

Taeniodonta Paleocene mammals Paleocene genus extinctions Paleocene mammals of North America Fossil taxa described in 1882 Prehistoric mammal genera Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{paleo-mammal-stub