Conoryctes

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Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Taeniodonta
Family:Conoryctidae
Conoryctes
Temporal range: 62.4–60.9 Ma Early to Middle Paleocene
skull of Conoryctes comma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Taeniodonta
Family: Conoryctidae
Subfamily: Conoryctinae
Tribe: Conoryctini
Genus: Conoryctes
Cope, 1881[1]
Type species
Conoryctes comma
Cope, 1881[1]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Hexodon (Cope, 1884)[2]
synonyms of species:
  • C. comma:
    • Hexodon molestus (Cope, 1884)

Conoryctes ("cone digger") is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct tribe Conoryctini within extinct subfamily Conoryctinae and extinct family Conoryctidae, that lived in North America from early to middle Paleocene.

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