Stylinodon

Stylinodon
Temporal range: early to middle Eocene
Life restoration of Stylinodon mirus
Skull of Stylinodon mirus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Taeniodonta
Family: †Stylinodontidae
Subfamily: †Stylinodontinae
Tribe: †Stylinodontini
Marsh, 1875
Genus: †Stylinodon
Marsh, 1874
Type species
†Stylinodon mirus
Marsh, 1874
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • S. mirus:
    • Calamodon cylindrifer (Cope, 1881)
    • Stylinodon cylindrifer (Wortman, 1896)
    • Stylinodon inexplicatus (Schoch & Lucas, 1981)

Stylinodon ("tooth with pilar-like fibers") is an extinct genus of taeniodonts that lived in North America from early to middle Eocene.

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