| Phenacodontidae | |
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| Phenacodus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Panperissodactyla |
| Family: | †Phenacodontidae Cope 1881[1] |
| Subfamilies & genera | |
Phenacodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous mammals traditionally placed in the “wastebasket taxon” Condylarthra, which may instead represent early-stage perissodactyls.[2][3] They lived from the late early Paleocene to early middle Eocene (about 60–50 million years ago) and their fossil remains have been found in North America and Europe. The only unequivocal Asian phenacodontid is Lophocion asiaticus.[4]
- ^ Cope, E. D. (1881). "A new type of Perissodactyla". American Naturalist. 15: 1017–1020. doi:10.1086/272983. OCLC 45953517.
- ^ Phenacodontidae in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved April 2013.
- ^ Cooper, L. N.; Seiffert, E. R.; Clementz, M.; Madar, S. I.; Bajpai, S.; Hussain, S. T.; Thewissen, J. G. M. (8 October 2014). "Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan are stem Perissodactyls". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): e109232. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j9232C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109232. PMC 4189980. PMID 25295875.
- ^ Bin Baia, Yuan-Qing Wanga, Jin Meng (2019). "A new late Paleocene phenacodontid 'condylarth' Lophocion from the Clark's Fork Basin of Wyoming". Historical Biology. 33 (115): 1-8. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1652283.
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