Cadurcodon
Extinct genus of mammals
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Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China.[1] It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Amynodontidae |
| Genus: | †Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Cadurcodon ardynensis Osborn, 1924 | |
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