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Colodon
Temporal range: Late Eocene to Late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Perissodactyla
Superfamily:
Tapiroidea
Family:
Tapiridae
Genus:
Colodon
Species:
C. occidentalis
Binomial name
Colodon occidentalis
(Leidy, 1868)

Colodon is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that were related to tapirs of today.[1]

Taxonomy

Species of Colodon include the type species C. occidentalis, C. kayi, C. woodi, C. angulatus, and C. stovalli.[2]

References

  1. ^ L. T. Holbrook. 1999. The Pphylogeny and classification of tapiromorph perissodactyls (Mammalia). Cladistics 15(3):331-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Colodon".


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