Phenacodus Temporal range:
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P. primaevus at the AMNH, collected from Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Phenacodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Phenacodontinae |
Genus: | †Phenacodus Cope, 1873 |
Species[1] | |
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Synonyms | |
Trispondylus Cope, 1884 |
Phenacodus (Greek: "deception" (phenax), "tooth' (odus)[2]) is an extinct genus of mammals from the late Paleocene through middle Eocene, about 55 million years ago. It is one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulates, typifying the family Phenacodontidae and the order Perissodactyla.[citation needed]