Cleopatrodon
| Cleopatrodon Temporal range: Oligocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Ptolemaiida |
| Family: | † Ptolemaiidae |
| Genus: | † Cleopatrodon Bown & Simons, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| Cleopatrodon ayeshae Bown & Simons, 1987 | |
| Species | |
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Cleopatrodon is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Ptolemaiida. Two species are known from the Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day Egypt: C. ayeshae, and the more powerfully built C. robusta. The genus is named for Cleopatra, the ancient Queen of Egypt.[1]
References
- ↑ Bown, Thomas M.; Simons, Elwyn L. (1987). "New Oligocene Ptolemaiidae (Mammalia: ?Pantolesta) from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7 (3): 311–324. doi:10.1080/02724634.1987.10011662. JSTOR 4523148.
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