Hypercoryphodon

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Hypercoryphodon
Fossil range: Late Eocene
Hypercoryphodon thomsoni and the dinoceratan Gobiatherium major
Hypercoryphodon thomsoni and the dinoceratan Gobiatherium major
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pantodonta
Family: Coryphodontidae
Genus: Hyperoryphodon
Osborn & Granger, 1932
Species: H. thomsoni

Hypercoryphodon was a genus of rhinoceros-sized pantodont native to Middle Eocene Mongolia, and was very similar to its ancestor, Coryphodon.

This beast was a contemporary of the aberrant dinoceratid, Gobiatherium.