Colodon
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| Colodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Helaletidae |
| Genus: | †Colodon Marsh, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| †Colodon occidentalis Leidy, 1868
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Colodon is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that were related to tapirs of today.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]Species of Colodon were originally placed within the genus Lophiodon but were later found to be distinct.[3]
Description
[edit | edit source]Colodon had small or absent canines and short, broad cheek teeth. The skull had a greatly enlarged narial incision and greatly reduced nasals. Similarities between the skulls of Colodon and true tapirs suggest it may have had a very small trunk as well.[3]
Colodon first appeared in the Late Eocene and lasted until the Whitneyan.
References
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- ^ L. T. Holbrook. 1999. The Phylogeny and classification of tapiromorph perissodactyls (Mammalia). Cladistics 15(3):331-350
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