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Cleopatrodon

Cleopatrodon
Temporal range: Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Ptolemaiida
Family: Ptolemaiidae
Genus: Cleopatrodon
Bown & Simons, 1987
Type species
Cleopatrodon ayeshae
Bown & Simons, 1987
Species
  • C. ayeshae
  • C. robusta

Cleopatrodon is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Ptolemaiida. Two species are known from the Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day Egypt: C. ayeshae, and the more powerfully built C. robusta. The genus is named for Cleopatra, the ancient Queen of Egypt.



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