Preregidens
| Preregidens Temporal range: early Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
| Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Preregidens Solé, 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Preregidens langebadrae Solé, 2015[1]
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Preregidens ("frontal royal tooth") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae, found in what is now France. It lived during the early Eocene epoch (Ypresian stage). It is a monotypic genus that contains the species P. langebadrae.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Solé, Floréal; Falconnet, Jocelyn; Vidalenc, Dominique (13 October 2015). Goswami, Anjali (ed.). "New fossil Hyaenodonta (Mammalia, Placentalia) from the Ypresian and Lutetian of France and the evolution of the Proviverrinae in southern Europe". Palaeontology. 58 (6): 1049–1072. doi:10.1111/pala.12198. ISSN 0031-0239. Retrieved 7 November 2024 – via Wiley Online Library.