Palaeomyrmidon
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Extinct genus of anteaters
| Palaeomyrmidon | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | Cyclopedidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeomyrmidon Rovereto, 1914 |
| Species: | †P. incomtus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Palaeomyrmidon incomtus Rovereto, 1914
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Palaeomyrmidon is an extinct genus of anteater. Its closest living relative is the silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus).[1] Although the silky anteater is arboreal, Palaeomyrmidon lived on the ground.[1] Palaeomyrmidon is known from a fossil skull that was found in the Andalhualá Formation of Argentina.[2] [3]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Palaeomyrmidon". Paleontology Database. Retrieved 2014年10月26日.
- ^ "Neotamandua". Paleontology Database. Retrieved 2012年07月23日.
- ^ Rovereto, Cayetano. 1914. Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 25: 1-247.
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