Biology:Cadurcodon
From HandWiki
| Cadurcodon | |
|---|---|
| |
| Skull illustration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
|
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | Mammalia
|
| Order: | |
| Family: | |
| Genus: | †Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942
|
| Type species | |
| †Cadurcodon ardynensis Osborn, 1924
| |
| Species | |
| |
Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont rhino that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China .[1] It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls.[2]
References
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Cadurcodon ardynensis". http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=253282&is_real_user=1.
- ↑ Wall, William P. (1980). "Cranial Evidence for a Proboscis in Cadurcodon and a Review of Snout Structure in the Family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)". Journal of Paleontology 54 (5): 968–977. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1304363.
Wikidata ☰ Q56256561 entry
 |
