Paracolodon

Paracolodon is an extinct genus of tapiroid perissodactyl belonging to the family Helaletidae. Fossils have been found in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia region of China.^{[citation needed]}

Paracolodon Temporal range: Middle - Late Eocene
Life Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	†Helaletidae
Genus:	†Paracolodon Matthew & Granger, 1925
Type species
†Paracolodon inceptus Matthew & Granger, 1925
Species
P. curtus P. fissus P. inceptus

Taxonomy

Matthew and Granger (1925) described the nominal tapiroid taxa Colodon inceptus and Paracolodon curtus from Eocene-age deposits in East Asia.^[1] Radinsky (1965) recognized two nominal species as identical and synonymized Paracolodon with Colodon inceptus.^[2] Dashzeveg and Hooker (1997) assigned the nominal tapiroid species "Helalestes" fissus to Colodon, as C. fissus, based on similarities with inceptus.^[3] On the basis of new material from the Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia, Bai et al. (2017) recognized Paracolodon as a distinct genus from Colodon, meaning that P. fissus is a referred species of Paracolodon.^[4]