Colodon
| Colodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Helaletidae |
| Genus: | †Colodon Marsh, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| †Colodon occidentalis Leidy, 1868
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| Species[1] | |
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Colodon is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that were related to tapirs of today.[2]
Taxonomy
Species of Colodon were originally placed within the genus Lophiodon but were later found to be distinct.[3]
Description
Colodon had small or absent canines and short, broad cheek teeth. The skull had a greatly enlarged narial incision and greatly reduced nasals. Similarities between the skulls of Colodon and true tapirs suggest it may have had a very small trunk as well.[3]
Colodon first appeared in the Late Eocene and lasted until the Whitneyan.
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Colodon".
- ^ L. T. Holbrook. 1999. The Phylogeny and classification of tapiromorph perissodactyls (Mammalia). Cladistics 15(3):331-350
- ^ a b Benton, Rachel C. (2015). The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology. Indiana University Press. p. 156. ISBN 9780253016089.
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