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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Peramura |
| Family: | †Peramuridae |
| Genus: | †Abelodon Brunet et al., 1989 |
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| †Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989
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†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989 | |
Abelodon is an extinct genus of peramurid mammal in the clade Zatheria, which lived during the Early Cretaceous.1 It is known from a single tooth found in Cameroon's Koum Formation.2
Paleoecology
Abelodon lived alongside various archosaurs in the Koum Formation, such as ornithopod dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus, theropods like an unnamed baryonychine, and crocodilians like Araripesuchus.3
References
References
- BRUNET, M; COPPENS, Y.; SUDRE, J.; DEJAX, J.; FLYNN, L.; HEINTZ, E.; HELL, J.; JACOBS, L.; JEHENNE, Y.; MOUCHELIN, G.; PILBEAM, D. (1990). "Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest". Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest. 310 (8): 1139–1146. ISSN 0764-4450.
- "Abelodon". Paleofile.com.
- Congleton, J.D. (1990). "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Koum Basin, Northern Cameroon, and Archosaurian Paleobiogeography in the Early Cretaceous". Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.