Aceroryctes

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
Type species
†Aceroryctes dulcis
Rankin & Holroyd, 2014

Aceroryctes ("bitter digger") 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.

References

  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.