Prodaphaenus Temporal range: Eocene
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part of lower jaw of Prodaphaenus uintensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Prodaphaenus Wortman & Matthew, 1899[1] |
Type species | |
†Prodaphaenus uintensis Osborn, 1895[2]
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Prodaphaenus ("before Daphoenus") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.[3][4]