Biology:Cadurcodon
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Class: | Mammalia
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Genus: | †Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942
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†Cadurcodon ardynensis Osborn, 1924
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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