Escavadodon Temporal range: Paleocene
middle
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Palaeanodonta |
Family: | †
Escavadodontidae Rose & Lucas, 2000 |
Genus: | †
Escavadodon Rose & Lucas, 2000 [1] |
Type species | |
†Escavadodon zygus Rose & Lucas, 2000
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Escavadodon ("tooth from Escavada") is an extinct genus of pangolin-like myrmecophagous placental mammals of extinct monotypic family Escavadodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the middle Paleocene. [1] [2] It contains a single species, Escavadodon zygus, recovered from the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Escavadodon is shown in the following cladogram: [3] [4] [5]
Ferae |
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†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Escavadodon Temporal range: Paleocene
middle
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Palaeanodonta |
Family: | †
Escavadodontidae Rose & Lucas, 2000 |
Genus: | †
Escavadodon Rose & Lucas, 2000 [1] |
Type species | |
†Escavadodon zygus Rose & Lucas, 2000
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Escavadodon ("tooth from Escavada") is an extinct genus of pangolin-like myrmecophagous placental mammals of extinct monotypic family Escavadodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the middle Paleocene. [1] [2] It contains a single species, Escavadodon zygus, recovered from the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Escavadodon is shown in the following cladogram: [3] [4] [5]
Ferae |
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†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||