Hyopsodus
| Hyopsodus Temporal range: Early Eocene
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| H. wortmani fossil at Butte National Monument | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Hyopsodontidae |
| Genus: | †Hyopsodus Leidy, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| †Hypsodus paulus | |
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Hyopsodus is a genus of extinct early ungulate mammal of the family Hyopsodontidae, a group associated with or basal to the Perissodactyla. It was a small mammal with skull of about 6 cm in length. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Eocene of North America, especially the Bighorn Basin region of the United States. It has also been found in Eurasia.