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Stylinodon
Genus of extinct mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stylinodon ("tooth with pilar-like fibers")[7] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct tribe Stylinodontini within subfamily Stylinodontinae and family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from early to middle Eocene.[8][9][10][11]
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Stylinodon | |
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life restoration of Stylinodon mirus | |
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skull of Stylinodon mirus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
Order: | †Taeniodonta |
Superfamily: | †Stylinodontoidea |
Family: | †Stylinodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Stylinodontinae |
Tribe: | †Stylinodontini Marsh, 1875[1] |
Genus: | †Stylinodon Marsh, 1874[2] |
Type species | |
†Stylinodon mirus Marsh, 1874 | |
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With a weight between 54.9 kg (121 lb) and 109 kg (240 lb),[8] and length of 1.30 m (4 ft 3 in),[8] it had similar size to a pig. The skull suggests it had a blunt face, and a very short snout. Its canines had developed into huge, incisor-like root-less teeth. Stylinodon's molars were covered in enamel and continued growing throughout its life. Most likely, it fed on rough roots and tubers.[12]