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2015 in paleomammalogy, the Glossary

This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2015, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.^[1]

333 relations: Abanico Formation, Aceratherium, Adapiformes, Aetiocetidae, Agilodocodon, Albicetus, Alcidedorbignya, Altacreodus, Amphicyonidae, Anomalure, Anomaluromorpha, Antaecetus, Anthracokeryx, Anthracotheriidae, Apatemyidae, Ape, Archaeodobenus, Arctocyonidae, Arikareean, Arvicolinae, Ashley Formation, Astrapotheria, Astrapotheriidae, Australopithecus, Australopithecus deyiremeda, Bahía Inglesa Formation, Baleen whale, Bandicoot, Bartonian, Basal (phylogenetics), Basilosauridae, Bat, Behemotops, Binomial nomenclature, Birch mouse, Bothriogenys, Bovidae, Brule Formation, Callistosiren, Cambay Shale Formation, Camelidae, Camelops, Cane rat, Canidae, Canini (tribe), Carodnia, Castilletes Formation, Castoridae, Catopsalis, Caviomorpha, ... Expand index (283 more) »
2015 in paleontology
Prehistoric mammals

Abanico Formation

Abanico Formation (Formación Abanico) is a thick sedimentary formation exposed in the Andes of Central Chile.

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Aceratherium

Aceratherium (Greek: "without (a) horn" (keratos), "beast" (therion)) is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Aceratheriinae that lived in Eurasia during the Miocene.

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Adapiformes

Adapiformes is a group of early primates.

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Aetiocetidae

Aetiocetidae is an extinct family of toothed baleen whales known from the Oligocene and latest Eocene, so far only from rocks deposited in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Agilodocodon

Agilodocodon was a genus of shrew-sized docodont from the Middle Jurassic, believed to be the earliest known tree-climbing mammaliaform.

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Albicetus

Albicetus is a genus of stem-sperm whales that lived during the Miocene Epoch, around 15 million years ago, and was discovered in Santa Barbara, California in 1909.

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Alcidedorbignya

Alcidedorbignya is an extinct pantodont mammal known from the Early Paleocene (Tiupampan SALMA) Santa Lucia Formation (paleocoordinates) at Tiupampa near Mizque, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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Altacreodus

Altacreodus ("creodont from Alberta") is an extinct genus of eutherian mammals.

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Amphicyonidae

Amphicyonidae is an extinct family of terrestrial carnivorans belonging to the suborder Caniformia.

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Anomalure

The Anomaluridae are a family of rodents found in central Africa.

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Anomaluromorpha

Anomaluromorpha is a clade that unites the anomalures, springhares, and zenkerella.

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Antaecetus

Antaecetus is an extinct genus of pachycetine basilosaurid from the middle Eocene Aridal Formation of Morocco as well as the Fayum, Egypt.

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Anthracokeryx

Anthracokeryx is a genus of extinct artiodactyl ungulate mammal belonging to Anthracotheriidae that lived in Asia during the middle to late Eocene.

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Anthracotheriidae

Anthracotheriidae is a paraphyletic family of extinct, hippopotamus-like artiodactyl ungulates related to hippopotamuses and whales.

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Apatemyidae

Apatemyidae is an extinct family of placental mammals that took part in the first placental evolutionary radiation together with other early mammals such as the leptictids.

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Ape

Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.

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Archaeodobenus

Archaeodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived during the Late Miocene of what is now Japan.

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Arctocyonidae

Arctocyonidae (from Greek arktos and kyôn, "bear/dog-like") is as an extinct family of unspecialized, primitive mammals with more than 20 genera.

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Arikareean

The Arikareean North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 30,600,000 to 20,800,000 years BP, a period of.

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Arvicolinae

The Arvicolinae are a subfamily of rodents that includes the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.

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Ashley Formation

The Ashley Formation is a geologic formation in South Carolina.

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Astrapotheria

Astrapotheria is an extinct order of South American and Antarctic hoofed mammals that existed from the late Paleocene to the Middle Miocene,.

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Astrapotheriidae

Astrapotheriidae is an extinct family of herbivorous South American land mammals that lived from the Late Eocene (Mustersan SALMA) to the Middle Miocene (Laventan SALMA).

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Australopithecus

Australopithecus is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.

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Australopithecus deyiremeda

Australopithecus deyiremeda is an extinct species of australopithecine from Woranso–Mille, Afar Region, Ethiopia, about 3.5 to 3.3 million years ago during the Pliocene.

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Bahía Inglesa Formation

The Bahía Inglesa Formation (alternatively misspelled "Bahia") is a littoral, sedimentary, and highly fossiliferous geological formation that outcrops across the nearby coastal zones of Caldera, Chile.

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Baleen whale

Baleen whales, also known as whalebone whales, are marine mammals of the parvorder Mysticeti in the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises), which use keratinaceous baleen plates (or "whalebone") in their mouths to sieve planktonic creatures from the water.

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Bandicoot

Bandicoots are a group of more than 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial, largely nocturnal marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia.

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Bartonian

The Bartonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geologic time scale, a stage or age in the middle of the Eocene Epoch or Series.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Basilosauridae

Basilosauridae is a family of extinct cetaceans.

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Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

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Behemotops

Behemotops (from the Biblical monster Behemoth, by Linnaeus and others believed to be a hippo) is an extinct genus of herbivorous marine mammal.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Birch mouse

Birch mice (genus Sicista) are small jumping rodents that resemble mice with long, tufted tails and very long hind legs, allowing for remarkable leaps.

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Bothriogenys

Bothriogenys is a genus of anthracotheres that lived in Eastern Africa during the late Eocene to early Oligocene.

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Bovidae

The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, yaks, bison, buffalo, antelopes (including goat-antelopes), sheep and goats.

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Brule Formation

The Brule Formation was deposited between 33 and 30 million years ago, roughly the Rupelian age (Oligocene).

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Callistosiren

Callistosiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now Puerto Rico during the late Oligocene (Chattian).

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Cambay Shale Formation

The Cambay Shale Formation is geologic formation in the Cambay Basin, India.

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Camelidae

Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda.

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Camelops

Camelops is an extinct genus of camel that lived in North and Central America, ranging from Alaska to Honduras, from the middle Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene.

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Cane rat

The genus Thryonomys, also known as the cane rats or grasscutters, is a genus of rodent found throughout Africa south of the Sahara, the only members of the family Thryonomyidae.

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Canidae

Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.

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Canini (tribe)

Canini is a taxonomic rank which represents the dog-like tribe of the subfamily Caninae (the canines), and is sister to the fox-like tribe Vulpini.

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Carodnia

Carodnia is an extinct genus of South American ungulate known from the Early Eocene of Brazil, Argentina, and Peru.

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Castilletes Formation

The Castilletes Formation (Formación Castilletes, N1c) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Cocinetas Basin in the northernmost department of La Guajira, Colombia.

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Castoridae

Castoridae is a family of rodents that contains the two living species of beavers and their fossil relatives.

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Catopsalis

Catopsalis is a genus of extinct mammal from the Paleocene of North America.

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Caviomorpha

Caviomorpha is the rodent parvorder that unites all New World hystricognaths.

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Cephalomyidae

Cephalomyidae is an extinct family of caviomorph rodents from South America.

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Cerro Bandera Formation

The Cerro Bandera Formation is a geological formation in Neuquén Province, Argentina, in northern Patagonia, which dates to the Early Miocene, around 21 to 17.5 million years ago.

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Cetotheriidae

Cetotheriidae is a family of baleen whales (parvorder Mysticeti).

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Chagres Formation

The Chagres Formation (Tc)Geologic Map, 1980 is a geologic formation in the Colón Province of central Panama.

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Chattian

The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.

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Chibanian

The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.

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Chilcacetus

Chilcacetus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene (Aquitanian) of Peru.

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Chipmunk

Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini).

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Chonecetus

Chonecetus is an extinct genus of primitive baleen whale of the family Aetiocetidae that lived in the Oligocene period.

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Chrysocetus

Chrysocetus (from Greek chrysous, "golden", and ketos, "whale", in reference to the gold-colored bones of the type specimen) is a genus of extinct early whale known from Late Eocene-aged fossils of the eastern United States and western Africa.

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Cimolestes

Cimolestes (from Ancient Greek Κιμο λέστες, 'chalk robber') is a genus of early eutherians with a full complement of teeth adapted for eating insects and other small animals.

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Cimolodonta

Cimolodonta is a clade of multituberculate mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.

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Clarkforkian

The Clarkforkian North American Stage, on the geologic timescale, is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 56,800,000 to 55,400,000 years BP lasting.

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Cloverly Formation

The Cloverly Formation is a geological formation of Early and Late Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Cenomanian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in the western United States.

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Colobinae

The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs.

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Condylarthra

Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.

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Crouzeliinae

Crouzeliinae is an extinct subfamily of Pliopithecidae primates that inhabited Europe and China during the Miocene, approximately 8–14.5 million years ago - they appear to have originated in Asia and extended their range into Europe between 17 and 13 million years ago.

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Crystal River Formation

The Crystal River Formation is a geologic formation in Florida.

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Ctenodactylomorphi

Ctenodactylomorphi is an infraorder of the rodent suborder Hystricomorpha that includes two living families, the Ctenodactylidae (gundis) and the Diatomyidae (Laotian rock rat).

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Cucaracha Formation

The Cucaracha Formation (Tca)Geologic Map, 1980 is a geologic formation in Panama.

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Culebra Formation

The Culebra Formation (Tcb)Geologic Map, 1980 is a geologic formation in Panama.

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Cynelos

Cynelos is a large extinct genus of amphicyonids which inhabited North America, Europe, and Africa from the Early Miocene subepoch to the Late Miocene subepoch 20.4–13.7 Mya, existing for approximately.

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Darwinius

Darwinius is a genus within the infraorder Adapiformes, a group of basal strepsirrhine primates from the middle Eocene epoch.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Deltatheridiidae

Deltatheridiidae is an extinct family of basal carnivorous metatherians that lived during the Cretaceous and Paleogene.

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Deltatheroida

Deltatheroida is an extinct group of basal metatherians that were distantly related to modern marsupials.

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Deseadan

The Deseadan (Deseadense) age is a period of geologic time (29.0–21.0 Ma) within the Oligocene epoch of the Paleogene to the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification of South America.

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Desert long-eared bat

The desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East.

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Desmostylia

The Desmostylia (from Greek δεσμά desma, "bundle", and στῦλος stylos, "pillar") are an extinct order of aquatic mammals native to the North Pacific from the early Oligocene (Rupelian) to the late Miocene (Tortonian).

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Didolodontidae

Didolodontidae is a possibly paraphyletic family of "condylarth" mammals known from the Paleogene of South America, with most specimens known from Argentina.

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Dimylus

Dimylus is an extinct genus of insectivore mammal.

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Docodon

Docodon (meaning 'beam tooth') is an extinct docodont mammaliaform from the Late Jurassic of western North America.

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Docodonta

Docodonta is an order of extinct Mesozoic mammaliaforms (advanced cynodonts closely related to true crown-group mammals).

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Docofossor

Docofossor is an extinct mammaliaform (a docodont) from the Jurassic period.

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Dormouse

A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists).

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Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.

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Earless seal

The earless seals, phocids, or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia.

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Echimyidae

Echimyidae is the family of neotropical spiny rats and their fossil relatives.

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Eionaletherium

Eionaletherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the Late Miocene coasts of Venezuela containing one species: E. tanycnemius.

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Ekembo

Ekembo is an early ape (hominoid) genus found in 17- to 20-million-year-old sediments from the Miocene epoch.

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Ekgmowechashala

Ekgmowechashala (Sioux: "little cat man") is an extinct genus of primate belonging to Adapiformes.

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Elephantidae

Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths.

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Eliomys

Eliomys (Ἡλίομυς Hēlíomus) is a genus of rodent in the family Gliridae, commonly known as garden dormice.

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Endocast

An endocast is the internal cast of a hollow object, often referring to the cranial vault in the study of brain development in humans and other organisms.

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Ensenadan

The Ensenadan age is a period of geologic time (1.2–0.8 Ma) within the Early Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.

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Eomyidae

Eomyidae is a family of extinct rodents from North America and Eurasia related to modern day pocket gophers and kangaroo rats.

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Eomysticetidae

Eomysticetidae is a family of extinct mysticetes belonging to Chaeomysticeti (toothless mysticetes).

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Eotragus

Eotragus is an extinct genus of early bovid.

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Equidae

Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils.

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Erinaceidae

Erinaceidae is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats.

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Eschrichtiidae

Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as three described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius and Eschrichtioides from the Miocene and Pliocene of Italy respectively, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina.

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Eucladoceros

Eucladoceros (Greek for "well-branched antler") is an extinct genus of large deer whose fossils have been discovered across Eurasia, from Europe to China, spanning from the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene.

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Eulipotyphla

Eulipotyphla (which means "truly fat and blind") is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, which includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs, golden moles, and otter shrews, now in their own order Afrosoricida).

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Euprox

Euprox is an extinct genus of deer that lived in Eurasia during the Miocene.

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Eutamias

Eutamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family.

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Eutypomyidae

Eutypomyidae is a family of extinct rodents from North America and Eurasia thought to be related to modern beavers.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Fort Union Formation

The Fort Union Formation is a geologic unit containing sandstones, shales, and coal beds in Wyoming, Montana, and parts of adjacent states.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fox

Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.

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Fucaia

Fucaia is an extinct genus of primitive baleen whale belonging to the family Aetiocetidae that is known from Oligocene and latest Eocene marine deposits on Vancouver Island, Canada, the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, and Oregon.

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Galerix

Galerix is a prehistoric genus of gymnures.

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Ganguroo

Ganguroo is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the Middle to Late Miocene Epoch.

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Glires

Glires (Latin glīrēs 'dormice') is a clade (sometimes ranked as a grandorder) consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas).

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Gobiconodon

Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammals (or possibly non-mammalian mammaliaforms) belonging to the family Gobiconodontidae.

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Gobiconodontidae

Gobiconodontidae is a family of extinct mammals that ranged from the mid-Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous, though most common during the Early Cretaceous.

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Golden mole

Golden moles are small insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Gomphothere

Gomphotheres are an extinct group of proboscideans related to modern elephants.

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Gram Formation

The Gram Formation is a geological formation in Gram, Denmark.

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Ground squirrel

Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.

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Gundi

Gundis or comb rats (family Ctenodactylidae) are a group of small, stocky rodents found in Africa.

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Gymnure

Gymnures, also called hairy hedgehogs or moonrats, are mammals belonging to the subfamily Galericinae, in the family Erinaceidae and the order Eulipotyphla.

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Hadar, Ethiopia

Hadar or Hadar Formation (also spelled Qad daqar, Qadaqar; Afar "white stream ")Jon Kalb Adventures in the Bone Trade (New York: Copernicus Books, 2001), p. 83 is a paleontological fossil site located in Mille district, Administrative Zone 1 of the Afar Region, Ethiopia, 15 km upstream (west) of the A1 road's bridge across the Awash River (Adayitu kebele).

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Haifanggou Formation

The Haifanggou Formation, also known as the Jiulongshan Formation, is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.

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Heart-nosed bat

The heart-nosed bat (Cardioderma cor) is a species of bat in the family Megadermatidae.

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Hedgehog

A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.

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Hegetotheriidae

Hegetotheriidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Oligocene through the Pliocene of South America.

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Helaletidae

The Helaletidae are an extinct family of tapiroid, closely related and likely ancestral to the true tapirs, which contain Protapirus and all descendants.

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Hemingfordian

The Hemingfordian on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 20,600,000 to 16,300,000 years BP.

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Hemphillian

The Hemphillian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is a North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 10,300,000 to 4,900,000 years BP.

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Heteromyidae

Heteromyidae is a family of rodents consisting of kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice and spiny pocket mice.

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Hilarcotherium

Hilarcotherium is an extinct genus of astrapotheriid mammals that lived in South America during the Middle Miocene (Laventan).

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Hipparion

Hipparion is an extinct genus of three-toed, medium-sized equine belonging to the extinct tribe Hipparionini, who lived about 10-5 million years ago.

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Hippidion

Hippidion (meaning little horse) is an extinct genus of equine that lived in South America from the Late Pliocene to the end of the Late Pleistocene (Lujanian), between 2.5 million and 11,000 years ago.

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Hippopotamidae

Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot.

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Hiwegi Formation

The Hiwegi Formation is a geological formation on Rusinga Island in Kenya preserving fossils dating to the Early Miocene period.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Homalodotheriidae

Homalodotheriidae is an extinct family comprising four genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Late Eocene (Tinguirirican) through Late Miocene (Chasicoan) of Argentina and Chile in South America.

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Hominini

The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines).

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Homo

Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.

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Homo naledi

Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave system, Gauteng province, South Africa (See Cradle of Humankind), dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago.

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Honda Group, Colombia

The Honda Group (Grupo Honda, Tsh, Ngh) is a geological group of the Upper and Middle Magdalena Basins and the adjacent Central and Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Horopeta

Horopeta is a genus of baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand.

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Huayquerian

The Huayquerian (Huayqueriense) age is a period of geologic time (9.0–6.8 Ma) within the Late Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification.

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Hyaenodonta

Hyaenodonta ("hyena teeth") is an extinct order of hypercarnivorous placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae.

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Hyainailourinae

Hyainailourinae ("hyena-cats") is an extinct subfamily of hyainailourid hyaenodonts that lived in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe from the middle Eocene to middle Miocene.

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Hyotheriinae

Hyotheriinae was a subfamily of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene and Pliocene in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Hyrachyus

Hyrachyus (from Hyrax and ὗς "pig") is an extinct genus of perissodactyl mammal that lived in Eocene Europe, North America, and Asia.

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Hyrax

Hyraxes (from ancient Greek ''ὕραξ'' (húrax) 'shrew-mouse'), also called '''dassies''', are small, stout, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea.

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Hystricognathi

The Hystricognathi are an infraorder of rodents, distinguished from other rodents by the bone structure of their skulls.

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Incamys

Incamys is an extinct genus of chinchillid rodent that lived during the Late Oligocene (Deseadan) in what is now South America.

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Interatheriidae

Interatheriidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America.

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Irdin Manha Formation

The Irdin Manha Formation is a geological formation from the Eocene located in Inner Mongolia, China, a few kilometres south of the Mongolian border.

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Isthminia

Isthminia (named after the Republic of Panama and its people) is a genus of medium-sized river dolphin cetaceans that lived during the Late Miocene epoch in what is now the coasts of Panama, about 6.1 million to 5.8 million years ago.

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Itaboraí Formation

The Itaboraí Formation (Formação Itaboraí) is a highly fossiliferous geologic formation and LagerstätteKellner & Campos, 1999, p.399 of the Itaboraí Basin in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil.

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Itaboraian

The Itaboraian (Itaboraiense) age is a period within the Early Eocene geologic time (53.0–50.0 Ma) epoch of the Paleogene, used more specifically with South American land mammal ages (SALMA).

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Jerboa

Jerboas are hopping desert rodents found throughout North Africa and Asia, and are members of the family Dipodidae.

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John Day Formation

The John Day Formation is a series of rock strata exposed in the Picture Gorge district of the John Day River basin and elsewhere in north-central Oregon in the United States.

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Kabirmys

Kabirmys qarunensis is an extinct species of anomaluroid (scaly-tailed flying squirrel) rodent from the earliest late Eocene of the Birket Qarun Formation from northern Egypt.

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Kattendijk Formation

The Kattendijk Formation (also known as the Kattendijk Sands) is a five million years old marine geological formation north of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Kerberos langebadreae

Kerberos ("Cerberus") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts in the subfamily Hyainailourinae, that lived in Europe.

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Kimbetopsalis

Kimbetopsalis simmonsae was an ancient mammal (a multituberculate) which was first discovered in 2015.

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Kogiidae

Kogiidae is a family comprising at least two extant species of Cetacea, the pygmy (''Kogia breviceps)'' and dwarf (''K. sima)'' sperm whales.

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Kokoamu Greensand

The Kokoamu Greensand is a geological formation found in New Zealand.

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Kolpochoerus

Kolpochoerus is an extinct genus of the pig family Suidae related to the modern-day genera Hylochoerus, Phacochoerus, and Potamochoerus.

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La Huérguina Formation

The La Huérguina Formation (also known as the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation, La Huérguina Limestone Formation or as the Una Formation) is a geological formation in Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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Lagomorpha

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae (rabbits and hares) and the Ochotonidae (pikas).

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Langhian

The Langhian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, an age or stage in the middle Miocene Epoch/Series.

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Lares Limestone

The Lares Limestone is a geologic formation in Puerto Rico.

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Late Pleistocene

The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.

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Leggadina

Leggadina is a genus of rodents from Australia.

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Lesser Himalayan Strata

One of the major depositional strata in the Himalaya is the Lesser Himalayan Strata from the Paleozoic to Mesozoic eras.

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Litopterna

Litopterna (from λῑτή πτέρνα "smooth heel") is an extinct order of South American native ungulates that lived from the Paleocene to the end of the Pleistocene-early Holocene around 63 million-12,000 years ago, and were also present in Antarctica during the Eocene.

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Liushu Formation

The Liushu Formation is a geological formation in Gansu province, China that spans up to 100 m thick and is widely distributed within the Linxia Basin, with a paleomagnetic age between 11 and 6.4 mya (Upper/Late Miocene).

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Lophiodon

Lophiodon (from λόφος, 'crest' and ὀδούς 'tooth') is an extinct genus of mammal related to chalicotheres.

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Lorisidae

Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates.

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Lotheridium

Lotheridium (meaning "small beast of Luoyang") is a genus of deltatheroidean therian mammal that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous.

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Lujanian

The Lujanian age is a South American land mammal age within the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs of the Neogene, from 0.8–0.011 Ma or 800–11 tya.

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Lutetian

The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.

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Lutra

Lutra is a genus of otters, one of seven in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Lycopsis

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.

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Macrodelphinus

Macrodelphinus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene marine deposits in California.

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Macropodidae

Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups.

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Macropodiformes

The Macropodiformes, also known as macropods, are one of the three suborders of the large marsupial order Diprotodontia.

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Makah Formation

The Makah Formation is a geologic formation in Washington (state).

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mammalogy

In zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems.

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Mauicetus

Mauicetus is a genus of extinct baleen whale from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand.

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Megadermatidae

Megadermatidae, or false vampire bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia.

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Mesocetus

Mesocetus is an extinct genus of baleen whale from the Miocene of Europe and North America.

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Messinian

The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene.

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Metailurus is a genus of saber-toothed cat in the family Felidae, and belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in North America, Eurasia and Africa from the Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene.

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Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals.

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Middle Awash

The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area in the northwest corner of Gabi Rasu in the Afar Region along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

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Milk River Formation

The Milk River Formation is a sandstone-dominated stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southern Alberta, Canada.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Monterey Formation

The Monterey Formation is an extensive Miocene oil-rich geological sedimentary formation in California, with outcrops of the formation in parts of the California Coast Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and on some of California's off-shore islands.

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Morrison Formation

The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America.

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Mouse

A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.

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Multituberculata

Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct order of rodent-like mammals with a fossil record spanning over 130 million years.

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Muntjac

Muntjacs, also known as the barking deer or rib-faced deer, (URL is Google Books) are small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Murgon fossil site

The Murgon fossil site is a paleontological site of early Eocene age in south-eastern Queensland, Australia.

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Muridae

The Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.

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Murinae

The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species.

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Mylagaulidae

The Mylagaulidae or mylagaulids are an extinct clade of sciuromorph rodents nested within the family Aplodontiidae.

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Mystacinidae

Mystacinidae is a family of unusual bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bats.

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Myzopoda

Myzopoda, which has two described species, is the only genus in the bat family Myzopodidae.

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Nacimiento Formation

The Nacimiento Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the San Juan Basin of western New Mexico (United States).

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Nanokogia

Nanokogia is an extinct genus of pygmy sperm whale that lived off the coast of Panama during the Late Miocene.

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Necrolemur

Necrolemur is a small bodied omomyid with body mass estimations ranging from.

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Neoepiblemidae

The Neoepiblemidae are an extinct family of hystricognath rodents from South America.

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Nesodon

Nesodon ("island tooth")Palmer (1904) p. 457.

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New World monkey

New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.

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Nguruwe

Nguruwe was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Africa.

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Nomen dubium

In binomial nomenclature, a nomen dubium (Latin for "doubtful name", plural nomina dubia) is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Notostylopidae

Notostylopidae is an extinct family comprising five genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Late Paleocene (Riochican) to Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) of Argentina, Brazil and Chile in South America.

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Notoungulata

Notoungulata is an extinct order of ungulates that inhabited South America from the early Paleocene to the end of the Pleistocene, living from approximately 61 million to 11,000 years ago.

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Nyctitheriidae

Nyctitheriidae is a family of extinct eulipotyphlan insectivores known from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs of North America and Asia and persisting into the Oligocene of Europe.

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Octodontidae

Octodontidae is a family of rodents, restricted to southwestern South America.

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Odobenidae

Odobenidae is a family of pinnipeds, of which the only extant species is the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus).

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Oklatheridium

Oklatheridium is an extinct genus of deltatheroidan from the United States.

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Olduvai Gorge

The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution.

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Omomyidae

Omomyidae is a group of early primates that radiated during the Eocene epoch between about (mya).

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Ontocetus

Ontocetus is an extinct genus of walrus, an aquatic carnivoran of the family Odobenidae, endemic to coastal regions of the southern North Sea and the southeastern coastal regions of the U.S. during the Miocene-Pleistocene.

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Onychonycteris

Onychonycteris is the more primitive of the three oldest bats known from complete skeletons, having lived in the area that is current day Wyoming during the Eocene period, 52.5 million years ago.

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Opossum

Opossums are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia endemic to the Americas.

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Otekaikea

Otekaikea is an extinct genus of toothed whale closely related to Waipatia.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Pachycetus

Pachycetus (meaning "thick whale") is an extinct genus of pachycetine basilosaurid from Middle Eocene of the eastern United States (North Carolina & Virginia) and Europe (chiefly Germany and Ukraine).

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Paedotherium

Paedotherium is an extinct, potentially paraphyletic genus of Notoungulate, belonging to the family Hegetotheriidae, composed of small-sized, rodent or lagomorph-like South American ungulates.

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Palaeoloxodon

Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus of elephant.

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Palaeoloxodon cypriotes

Palaeoloxodon cypriotes is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that inhabited the island of Cyprus during the Late Pleistocene.

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Palaeomerycidae

The Palaeomerycidae is an extinct family of Neogene ruminants belonging to the infraorder Pecora.

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Palaeotheriidae

Palaeotheriidae is an extinct family of herbivorous perissodactyl mammals that inhabited Europe, with less abundant remains also known from Asia, from the mid-Eocene to the early Oligocene.

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Pampatheriidae

Pampatheriidae ("Pampas beasts") is an extinct family of large cingulates related to armadillos.

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Panthera spelaea

Panthera spelaea, commonly known as the cave lion (or less commonly as the steppe lion) is an extinct Panthera species native to Eurasia and northwest North America during the Pleistocene epoch.

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Pantodonta

Pantodonta is an extinct suborder (or, according to some, an order) of 150My, whereas pantodonts appared around c. 60My; this is equivalent to saying that 8 August is early in the year!--> eutherian mammals.

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Paratoceras

Paratoceras is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to North America.

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Peccary

Peccaries (also javelinas or skunk pigs) are pig-like ungulates of the family Tayassuidae (New World pigs).

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Penghu

The Penghu (Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, located approximately west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of.

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Penghu 1

Penghu 1 is a fossil jaw (mandible) belonging to an extinct hominin species of the genus Homo from Taiwan which lived in the middle-late Pleistocene.

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Penghu Channel

The Penghu Channel or Pescadores Channel is the body of water that separates the Penghu islands from Taiwan island and links the Taiwan Strait to the northeastern South China Sea.

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Periphragnis

Periphragnis is an extinct genus of isotemnid notoungulates that lived from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene in what is now Argentina and Chile.

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Perissodactyla

Perissodactyla is an order of ungulates.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Physeteroidea

Physeteroidea is a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia.

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Pisco Formation

The Pisco Formation is a geologic formation located in Peru, on the southern coastal desert of Ica and Arequipa.

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Placentalia

Placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia) are one of the three extant subdivisions of the class Mammalia, the other two being Monotremata and Marsupialia.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliobates

Pliobates cataloniae is a primate from 11.6 million years ago, during the Iberian Miocene.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pliopithecoidea

Pliopithecoidea is an extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Asia and Europe during the Miocene.

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Porpoise

Porpoises are small dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae.

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Potamogalidae

Potamogalidae is the family of "otter shrews", a group of semiaquatic riverine afrotherian mammals indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Proconsul (mammal)

Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 21 to 17 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.

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Prohegetotherium

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra, Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.

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Prolagus

Prolagus is an extinct genus of lagomorph.

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Protanancus

Protanancus is an extinct genus of amebelodontid proboscidean from Kenya, Pakistan and Thailand.

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Protoceratidae

Protoceratidae is an extinct family of herbivorous North American artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) that lived during the Eocene through Pliocene.

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Protypotherium

Protypotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs.

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Pucadelphys

Pucadelphys is an extinct genus of non-marsupial metatherian.

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Puercan

The Puercan North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), spanning the interval from 66,000,000 to 63,300,000 years BP lasting.

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Purgatorius

Purgatorius is a genus of seven extinct eutherian species typically believed to be the earliest example of a primate or protoprimate, a primatomorph precursor to the Plesiadapiformes, dating to as old as 66 million years ago.

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Pysht Formation

The Pysht Formation is a geologic formation in Washington (state).

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Qiupa Formation

The Qiupa Formation is a Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian geologic formation in Henan Province, central China.

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Reduncinae

The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks.

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Remington Kellogg

Arthur Remington Kellogg (5 October 1892 – 8 May 1969) was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum.

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Rhinoceros

A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.

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Rising Star Cave

The Rising Star cave system (also known as Westminster or Empire cave) is located in the Malmani dolomites, in Bloubank River valley, about southwest of Swartkrans, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.

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River dolphin

River dolphins are a polyphyletic group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.

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Riversleigh World Heritage Area

Riversleigh World Heritage Area is Australia's most famous fossil location, recognised for the series of well preserved fossils deposited from the Late Oligocene to more recent geological periods.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Rorqual

Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.

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Rupelian

The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.

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Santa Cruz Formation

The Santa Cruz Formation is a geological formation in the Magallanes/Austral Basin in southern Patagonia in Argentina and in adjacent areas of Chile.

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Santacrucian

The Santacrucian age is a period of geologic time (17.5 – 16.3 Ma) within the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically with SALMA classification in South America.

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Sardinian dhole

The Sardinian dhole (genus Cynotherium especially C. sardous) is an extinct insular canid which was endemic to what is now the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Corsica during the Middle-Late Pleistocene.

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Sarmiento Formation

The Sarmiento Formation (Spanish: Formación Sarmiento), in older literature described as the Casamayor Formation, is a geological formation in Chubut Province, Argentina, in central Patagonia, which spans around 30 million years from the mid-Eocene to the early Miocene.

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Schlieffen's serotine

Schlieffen's serotine (Nycticeinops schlieffeni), also known as Schlieffen's bat or Schlieffen's twilight bat, is a species of vesper bat found in Africa.

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Sciurinae

Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels (in the family Sciuridae), uniting the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels.

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Scotoecus

Scotoecus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae.

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Sedophascolomys

Sedophascolomys is an extinct genus of wombat known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Australia.

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Shrew opossum

The family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains of South America.

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Simian

The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes) of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes.

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Sivacobus

Sivacobus is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

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Sloth

Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths.

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South Asian river dolphin

South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus Platanista, which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent.

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Sparassodonta

Sparassodonta (from Greek σπαράσσειν, to tear, rend; and ὀδούς, gen. ὀδόντος, tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials.

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Spinolestes

Spinolestes is an extinct mammal genus from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.

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Squirrel

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.

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Suidae

Suidae is a family of artiodactyl mammals which are commonly called pigs, hogs, or swine.

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Taeniolabididae

Taeniolabididae is one of the two multituberculate clades within Taeniolabidoidea.

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Taeniolabidoidea

Taeniolabidoidea is a group of extinct mammals known whose fossils can be found in North America and Asia.

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Tapiroidea

Tapiroidea is a superfamily of perissodactyls which includes the modern tapirs and their extinct relatives.

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Tarsus (skeleton)

In the human body, the tarsus (tarsi) is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of the tibia and the fibula of the lower leg and the metatarsus.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Tenrec

A tenrec is a mammal belonging to any species within the afrotherian family Tenrecidae, which is endemic to Madagascar.

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Thylacine

The thylacine (binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea.

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Thylacinus yorkellus

Thylacinus yorkellus is a fossil species of carnivorous marsupial, a sister species of the recently extinct Thylacinus cynocephalus, the Tasmanian tiger, both of which existed on mainland Australia.

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Thyrohyrax

Thyrohyrax was a genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal.

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Tiaojishan Formation

The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period (Bathonian-Oxfordian stages).

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Tinguirirican

The Tinguirirican (Tinguiririquense) age is a period of geologic time (36.0–29.0 Ma) within the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene epochs of the Paleogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America.

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Titanohyrax

Titanohyrax is an extinct genus of large to very large hyrax from the Eocene and Oligocene.

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Tokarahia

Tokarahia is a genus of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.

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Tonnicinctus

Tonnicinctus is an extinct species of pampatheriid that lived in Argentina during the Pleistocene and Holocene.

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Toothed whale

The toothed whales (also called odontocetes, systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and the sperm whales.

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Tortonian

The Tortonian is in the geologic time scale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between.

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Toxodontia

Toxodontia is a suborder of the meridiungulate order Notoungulata.

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Toxodontidae

Toxodontidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals, known from the Oligocene to the Holocene (11,000 BP) of South America, with one genus, Mixotoxodon, also known from the Pleistocene of Central America and southern North America (as far north as Texas).

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Tranatocetus

Tranatocetus is an extinct genus of mysticete from the late Miocene (Tortonian) of Jutland, Denmark.

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Tribosphenida

Tribosphenida is a group (infralegion) of mammals that includes the ancestor of Hypomylos, Aegialodontia and Theria (the last common ancestor of marsupials and placentals plus all of its descendants).

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Tsagandelta

Tsagandelta (meaning "white crest") is a genus of deltatheroidean therian mammal that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous.

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Turolian

The Turolian age is a period of geologic time (9.0–5.3 Ma) within the Miocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.

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Urumaco Formation

The Urumaco Formation is a formation in Venezuela that includes deposits from the Late Miocene.

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Valenopsalis

Valenopsalis is an extinct mammal from the Paleocene of North America (more specifically, Puercan-aged deposits in Wyoming, Montana and Saskatchewan. Originally referred to the genus Catopsalis (C. joyneri), it has more recently been moved to its own genus as the former was understood to be a wastebasket taxon.

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References

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