| Paraxiphodon Temporal range:
Priabonian
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | † Xiphodontidae |
| Genus: | †
Paraxiphodon Sudre, 1978 |
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Paraxiphodon is an extinct genus of artiodactyl (family Xiphodontidae) from the Late Eocene of France ( Robiac-Nord and Fons). There are two included species, P. teulonensis and P. cournovensis. The genus demonstrated the continued existence of xiphodonts into at least the Lower Oligocene. [1] [2]
References
- ^ Prothero, Donald R.; Foss, Scott E. (2007). The Evolution of Artiodactyls. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 74–76. ISBN 978-0801887352.
- ^ "Genus †Paraxiphodon - Hierarchy - the Taxonomicon".
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