Cleopatrodon
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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 VII Philopator, the last Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Ptolemaiida |
Family: | †Ptolemaiidae |
Genus: | †Cleopatrodon Bown & Simons, 1987 |
Type species | |
Cleopatrodon ayeshae Bown & Simons, 1987 | |
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