| Escavadodon Temporal range: middle Paleocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
| Family: | †Escavadodontidae Rose & Lucas, 2000 |
| Genus: | †Escavadodon Rose & Lucas, 20001 |
| Type species | |
| †Escavadodon zygus Rose & Lucas, 2000
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Escavadodon ("tooth from Escavada") is an extinct genus of pangolin-like myrmecophagous placental mammals of extinct monotypic family Escavadodontidae within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America during the middle Paleocene.12 It contains a single species, Escavadodon zygus, recovered from the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
References
References
- Rose, Kenneth D.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2000). "An early Paleocene palaeanodont (Mammalia, ?Pholidota) from New Mexico, and the origin of Palaeanodonta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 139–156. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0139:AEPPMP]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Paleobiology Database: Escavadodontidae basic info.