Hypercoryphodon Temporal range: Middle Eocene |
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Hypercoryphodon thomsoni and the dinoceratan Gobiatherium major | |
Conservation status | |
Fossil
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cimolesta |
Suborder: | 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.