Xenocranium

Xenocranium
Temporal range: 35.8–33.9 Ma
Late Eocene
Artist reconstruction of
Xenocranium pileorivale
compared to the size of a human hand.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Palaeanodonta
Family: Epoicotheriidae
Subfamily: Epoicotheriinae
Genus: Xenocranium
Colbert, 1942[1]
Type species
Xenocranium pileorivale
Colbert, 1942

Xenocranium ("strange skull") is an extinct monotypic genus of placental mammal from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Epoicotheriinae within extinct paraphyletic family Epoicotheriidae in extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the late Eocene.

  1. ^ E. H. Colbert (1942). Edentate from the Oligocene of Wyoming. Academy of Natural Sciences, No. 109. ISBN 978-1-60483-109-2. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)