Ernanodon

Ernanodon
Temporal range: 62.22–56.0 Ma middle to late Paleocene
Holotype skeleton (IVPP V5596) of E. antelios, Paleozoological Museum of China
Reconstruction of Ernanodon antelios
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Palaeanodonta
Family: †Ernanodontidae
Genus: †Ernanodon
Ding, 1979[1]
Type species
†Ernanodon antelios
Ding, 1979

Ernanodon ("a sprout of toothless animals") is an extinct genus of placental mammal from extinct family Ernanodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived from the middle to late Paleocene in China (Nongshan Formation)[2] and Mongolia.[3]

  1. ^ S. Ding (1979.) "A new edentate from the Paleocene of Guandong." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17:57-64
  2. ^ S.-Y. Ding (1987.) "A Paleocene edentate from the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong." Palaeontologia Sinica 173:1-118
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kondrashov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).