Bathygenys
Bathygenys | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Merycoidodontidae |
Genus: | †Bathygenys Douglass 1902 |
Type species | |
Bathygenys alpha | |
Species | |
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Bathygenys is an extinct genus of oreodont of the family Merycoidodontidae, endemic to North America. It lived during the Early Oligocene 33.9—33.3 mya.[1] Fossils are widespread through the western United States.
Bathygenys was a herbivore with a heavy body, long tail, short feet, and four-toed hooves.[citation needed]
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Categories:
- Oreodonts
- Eocene even-toed ungulates
- Oligocene even-toed ungulates
- Priabonian genus first appearances
- Rupelian genus extinctions
- Paleogene mammals of North America
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera