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Aceroryctes

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Aceroryctes
Temporal range: 54.4–54.1 Ma early Eocene
lower jaw fragment of Aceroryctes dulcis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia (?)
Order: Palaeoryctida
Family: Palaeoryctidae
Genus: Aceroryctes
Rankin & Holroyd, 2014[1]
Type species
Aceroryctes dulcis
Rankin & Holroyd, 2014[1]

Aceroryctes ("bitter digger")[1] is an extinct genus of mammals from family Palaeoryctidae, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. Type species Aceroryctes dulcis is known from the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Rankin, Brian D.; Holroyd, Patricia A. (7 November 2014). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). "Aceroryctes dulcis, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia, Eutheria) from the early Eocene of the Wasatch Formation of southwestern Wyoming, USA". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51 (10): 919–926. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0101. ISSN 0008-4077. Retrieved 3 June 2025 via Canadian Science Publishing.