Ziphacodon Temporal range: early Eocene |
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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.