Palaeoryctidae
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Palaeoryctidae ("ancient diggers") is an extinct family of non-specialized eutherian mammals from extinct order Palaeoryctida, that lived in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa from the late Cretaceous to middle Eocene.[4][5][6][7][8]
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Palaeoryctidae | |
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Palaeoryctes jepseni lower jaw fragment | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
Order: | †Palaeoryctida Averianov, 2003[1] |
Family: | †Palaeoryctidae Winge, 1917[2] |
Type genus | |
†Palaeoryctes Matthew, 1913 | |
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