Ectoganus
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| Ectoganus | |
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| head of Ectoganus gliriformis (Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Taeniodonta |
| Family: | †Stylinodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Stylinodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Ectoganini Cope, 1876[1] |
| Genus: | †Ectoganus Cope, 1874[2] |
| Type species | |
| †Ectoganus gliriformis Cope, 1874 | |
| Species | |
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Ectoganus ("outside brightness")[12] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from tribe Ectoganini within subfamily Stylinodontinae and family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene.[13][14][15][16]