Gomphos
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| Gomphos Temporal range: Early Eocene |
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| Drawings and SEM images of cheek teeth of Gomphos elkema | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
| (unranked): | Glires |
| Genus: | Gomphos Shevyreva, 1975 |
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Gomphos is an extinct genus of early lagomorph from the early Eocene some 55 million years ago of China and Mongolia. The type species is G. elkema.
[edit] Sources
- The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose
- The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades by Kenneth D. Rose and J. David Archibald
[edit] External links
- Gomphos in the Paleobiology Database
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