Colpodon

Colpodon
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Leontiniidae
Genus: †Colpodon
Burmeister 1885
Type species
†Colpodon propinquus
Burmeister, 1885
Species
  • C. antucoensis Shockey et al 2012
  • C. distinctus Ameghino 1902
  • C. plicatus Ameghino 1904
  • C. propinquus Burmeister 1885

Colpodon is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal, belonging to the order Notoungulata. It lived during the Early Miocene, in what is today Argentina and Chile, in South America.

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