Conoryctidae

Conoryctidae; Temporal range: 63.8–55.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N 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
	†Conoryctinae; †Eurodontinae;
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.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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Taxonomy and phylogeny

Conoryctidae Temporal range: 63.8–55.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N 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^[1]
Type genus
†Conoryctes Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
†Conoryctinae †Eurodontinae
Synonyms
Conoryctinae (Schlosser, 1911)^[2] Conoryctini (Winge, 1917)^[3]