Palaeanodonta

Palaeanodonta
Temporal range: Middle Paleocene – Early Oligocene
From top to bottom: Ernanodon antelios, Xenocranium pileorivale and Metacheiromys marshi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pholidotamorpha
Order: †Palaeanodonta
Matthew, 1918
Families and genera
[see classification]
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Ernodonta (Ding, 1987)
  • Ernanodonta (Ding, 1987)
  • Palaeanodontiformes (Kinman, 1994)
  • Palaenodonta (Rose, 2008)
  • Palaenodontina (Pearse, 1936)

Palaeanodonta ("ancient toothless animals") is an extinct clade of stem-pangolins. They were insectivorous (myrmecophagous), possibly fossorial, and lived from the middle Paleocene to early Oligocene in North America, Europe and Asia. While the taxonomic grouping of Palaeanodonta has been debated, it is widely thought that they are a sister group to pangolins.

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