Oxyacodon

Oxyacodon; Temporal range: Early Paleocene
	A partial jaw from the Willow Creek Formation of Alberta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Family:	†Periptychidae
Subfamily:	†Conacodontinae
Genus:	†Oxyacodon; Osborn and Earle, 1895
Species
	O. agapetillus (Cope, 1884); O. apiculatus (type) Osborn and Earle, 1895; O. ferronensis Archibald et al., 1983; O. marshater Van Valen, 1978; O. priscilla Matthew, 1937;

Oxyacodon is an extinct genus of condylarth of the family Periptychidae endemic to North America during the Early Paleocene living from 66 to 63.3 mya, existing for approximately 2.7 million years.¹

Taxonomy

Oxyacodon was named by Osborn and Earle (1895).² Its type is Oxyacodon apiculatus. It was assigned to Periptychidae by Osborn and Earle (1895) and Carroll (1988); and to Conacodontinae by Archibald (1998), Eberle (2003) and Middleton and Dewar (2004).

Fossils have been found dating back to the Puercan stage in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan.

References

PaleoBiology Database: Oxyacodon, basic info
Henry Fairfield Osborn; Charles Earle (1895). "Fossil mammals of the Puerco beds : collection of 1892" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 7 (1): 1–70. hdl:2246/1572. ISSN 0003-0090. Wikidata Q93873066.

Archibald, J. D.; Rigby, J. K. Jr.; Robison, S. F. (1983). "Systematic revision of Oxyacodon (Condylarthra, Periptychidae) and a description of O. ferronensis n. sp". Journal of Paleontology. 57 (1): 53–72. JSTOR 1304609.

[1] PaleoBiology Database: Oxyacodon, basic info

[Q93873066-2] Henry Fairfield Osborn; Charles Earle (1895). "Fossil mammals of the Puerco beds : collection of 1892" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 7 (1): 1–70. hdl:2246/1572. ISSN 0003-0090. Wikidata Q93873066.

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