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Phoxomylus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
?Palaechthonidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Plesiadapiformes

Subfamily
  
?Plesiolestinae

Similar
  
Protungulatum, Plesiadapiformes, Purgatorius, Condylarth

Phoxomylus is an extinct genus of palaechthonid plesiadapiform which existed in Alberta, Canada, during the late Paleocene (earliest Tiffanian age). It was first named by Richard C. Fox in 2011 and the type species is Phoxomylus puncticuspis. The holotype exposed in Paskapoo Formation by Gordon P. Youzwyshyn on 10 July, 1988.

References

Phoxomylus Wikipedia