Aceroryctes
| Aceroryctes Temporal range: early Eocene
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| lower jaw fragment of Aceroryctes dulcis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
| Order: | †Palaeoryctida |
| Family: | †Palaeoryctidae |
| Genus: | † Rankin & Holroyd, 2014[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Aceroryctes dulcis Rankin & Holroyd, 2014[1]
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Aceroryctes ("bitter digger")[1] is an extinct genus of mammals from family Palaeoryctidae, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. Type species Aceroryctes dulcis is known from the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.[1]
Phylogeny
| Placentalia |
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References
- ^ a b c d Rankin, Brian D.; Holroyd, Patricia A. (7 November 2014). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). "Aceroryctes dulcis, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia, Eutheria) from the early Eocene of the Wasatch Formation of southwestern Wyoming, USA". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51 (10): 919–926. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0101. ISSN 0008-4077. Retrieved 3 June 2025 – via Canadian Science Publishing.