Ziphacodon

Ziphacodon
Temporal range: early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivoramorpha
Family: Miacidae
Genus: Ziphacodon
Marsh, 1872
Species: Z. rugatus
Binomial name
Ziphacodon rugatus
M. R. Thorpe, 1923

Ziphacodon is an extinct genus of Miacidae. The species Ziphacodon rugatus was described as a new species by M. R. Thorpe in 1923. The genus itself was first described by Marsh in 1872.

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