Cadurcodon

Cadurcodon Temporal range: Eocene-Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	†Amynodontidae
Genus:	†Cadurcodon Kretzoi, 1942
Type species
†Cadurcodon ardynensis Osborn, 1924
Species
C. ardynensis C. tuskabakensis C. zaisanensis

Cadurcodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived during the Late Eocene to the Oligocene period. Fossils have been found throughout Mongolia and China.^[1] It may have sported a tapir-like proboscis due to the distinct features found in fossil skulls.^[2]

1. ^ "Fossilworks: Cadurcodon ardynensis". fossilworks.org.
2. ^ Wall, William P. (1980). "Cranial Evidence for a Proboscis in Cadurcodon and a Review of Snout Structure in the Family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)". Journal of Paleontology. 54 (5): 968–977. JSTOR 1304363.

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