Conoryctidae

Conoryctidae
Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Early Eocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
lower jaw fragment of
Conoryctella dragonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: †Taeniodonta
Family: †Conoryctidae
Wortman, 1896
Type genus
†Conoryctes
Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Conoryctinae (Schlosser, 1911)
  • Conoryctini (Winge, 1917)

Conoryctidae ("cone diggers") is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America and Europe from the early Paleocene to early Eocene.

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