Colodon
Colodon is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that were related to tapirs of today.[1]
Colodon Temporal range: Late Eocene to Late Oligocene | |
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Genus: | Colodon |
Species: | C. occidentalis |
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Colodon occidentalis (Leidy, 1868) | |
Taxonomy
Species of Colodon include the type species C. occidentalis, C. kayi, C. woodi, C. angulatus, and C. stovalli.[2]
gollark: Wow, that was fast. *Two* boreal hatchlings.
gollark: (an ER egg, though, so I *might* accept that if I don't get anything else for a while)
gollark: Wow, an offer already on my trade for new release hatchling(s)!It's an egg.
gollark: It must be the doing of TJ0__8__.
gollark: TJ09 is such a TJ09 sometimes.
References
- L. T. Holbrook. 1999. The Pphylogeny and classification of tapiromorph perissodactyls (Mammalia). Cladistics 15(3):331-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
- "Fossilworks: Colodon".
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