Abdounodus Temporal range: Paleocene
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A. hamdii lower jaw | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superorder: | Afrotheria |
Clade: | Paenungulatomorpha |
Genus: | †Abdounodus Gheerbrant & Sudre, 2001 |
Species: | †A. hamdii
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Binomial name | |
†Abdounodus hamdii Gheerbrant et al., 2001
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Abdounodus ("Abdoun tooth") is an extinct genus of mammal known from the middle Paleocene of Northern Africa. The sole species, A. hamdii, is known from teeth and jaw bones discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of present-day Morocco in 2001.[1] [2]