Pentacodontidae

Pentacodontidae ("teeth with five points") is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America and Europe^[2] from the early to late Paleocene.^[3][4]

Pentacodontidae Temporal range: 63.8–50.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to late Paleocene
mandibula of Aphronorus fraudator
mandibula of Bisonalveus browni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Mirorder:	Ferae
Order:	†Pantolesta
Family:	†Pentacodontidae Simpson, 1937[1]
Type genus
†Pentacodon Scott, 1892
Genera
†Aphronorus †Bisonalveus †Coriphagus †Eurolestes †Pentacodon
Synonyms
Pentacodontinae (Simpson, 1937)

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Family: †Pentacodontidae (Simpson, 1937) Genus: †Aphronorus (Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus bearspawensis (Scott, 2013) †Aphronorus fraudator (Simpson, 1935) †Aphronorus orieli (Gazin, 1969) †Aphronorus ratatoski (Winterfeld, 1982) †Aphronorus simpsoni (Gazin, 1938) Genus: †Bisonalveus (Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus browni (Gazin, 1956) †Bisonalveus gracilis (Fox & Scott, 2020) †Bisonalveus holtzmani (Gingerich, 1983) Genus: †Coriphagus (Douglass, 1908) †Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew & Granger, 1921) †Coriphagus montanus (Douglass, 1908) Genus: †Eurolestes (De Bast & Smith, 2016) †Eurolestes dupuisi (De Bast & Smith, 2016) Genus: †Pentacodon (Scott, 1892) †Pentacodon inversus (Cope, 1888) †Pentacodon occultus (Matthew, 1937)