| Cadurcodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | † Amynodontidae |
| Genus: | †
Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Cadurcodon ardynensis
Osborn, 1924
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Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China. [1] It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls. [2]
- ^ "Fossilworks: Cadurcodon ardynensis". fossilworks.org.
- ^ Wall, William P. (1980). "Cranial Evidence for a Proboscis in Cadurcodon and a Review of Snout Structure in the Family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)". Journal of Paleontology. 54 (5): 968–977. JSTOR 1304363 – via JSTOR.
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| Cadurcodon Temporal range:
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| Skull | |
|
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | † Amynodontidae |
| Genus: | †
Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Cadurcodon ardynensis
Osborn, 1924
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| Species | |
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Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China. [1] It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls. [2]
- ^ "Fossilworks: Cadurcodon ardynensis". fossilworks.org.
- ^ Wall, William P. (1980). "Cranial Evidence for a Proboscis in Cadurcodon and a Review of Snout Structure in the Family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)". Journal of Paleontology. 54 (5): 968–977. JSTOR 1304363 – via JSTOR.
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