Biology:Abdounodus
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammal
| Abdounodus | |
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| A. hamdii lower jaw | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Afrotheria |
| Clade: | Paenungulatomorpha |
| Genus: | †Abdounodus Gheerbrant & Sudre, 2001 |
| Species: | †A. hamdii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Abdounodus hamdii Gheerbrant et al., 2001
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Abdounodus ("Abdoun tooth") is an extinct genus of mammal known from the middle Paleocene of northern Africa. The sole species, A. hamdii, is known from teeth discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of present-day Morocco in 2001.[1] Traditionally considered a mioclaenid "condylarth", recent studies place it as a basal afrothere closely related to Ocepeia, demonstrating the close convergent evolution between perissodactyls and herbivorous afrotheres and bridging paenungulates with other afrotheres.[2]
References
- ↑ Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Sudre, Jean; Iarochene, Mohamed; Moumni, Abdelkader (2001). "First ascertained African "Condylarth" mammals (primitive ungulates: cf. Bulbulodentata and cf. Phenacodonta) from the earliest Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (1): 107–118. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0107:FAACMP2.0.CO;2].
- ↑ Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Filippo, Andrea; Schmitt, Arnaud (2016). "Convergence of Afrotherian and Laurasiatherian Ungulate-Like Mammals: First Morphological Evidence from the Paleocene of Morocco". PLOS ONE 11 (7): e0157556. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157556. PMID 27384169. Bibcode: 2016PLoSO..1157556G.
Wikidata ☰ Q20817538 entry
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