Oxyacodon
| Oxyacodon Temporal range: Early Paleocene
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| A partial jaw from the Willow Creek Formation of Alberta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Family: | †Periptychidae |
| Subfamily: | †Conacodontinae |
| Genus: | †Oxyacodon Osborn and Earle, 1895 |
| Species | |
Oxyacodon is an extinct genus of condylarth of the family Periptychidae endemic to North America during the Early Paleocene living from 66 to 63.3 mya, existing for approximately 2.7 million years.[1]
Taxonomy
Oxyacodon was named by Osborn and Earle (1895).[2] Its type is Oxyacodon apiculatus. It was assigned to Periptychidae by Osborn and Earle (1895) and Carroll (1988); and to Conacodontinae by Archibald (1998), Eberle (2003) and Middleton and Dewar (2004).
Fossils have been found dating back to the Puercan stage in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan.
References
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Oxyacodon, basic info
- ^ Henry Fairfield Osborn; Charles Earle (1895). "Fossil mammals of the Puerco beds : collection of 1892" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 7 (1): 1–70. hdl:2246/1572. ISSN 0003-0090. Wikidata Q93873066.
- Archibald, J. D.; Rigby, J. K. Jr.; Robison, S. F. (1983). "Systematic revision of Oxyacodon (Condylarthra, Periptychidae) and a description of O. ferronensis n. sp". Journal of Paleontology. 57 (1): 53–72. JSTOR 1304609.