Palaeoryctidae
| Palaeoryctidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Middle Eocene | |
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| Palaeoryctes jepseni lower jaw fragment | |
| Aceroryctes dulcis lower jaw fragment | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Eutheria |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
| Order: | †Palaeoryctida Averianov, 2003 |
| Family: | †Palaeoryctidae Winge, 1917 |
| Type genus | |
| †Palaeoryctes Matthew, 1913 | |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Palaeoryctidae ("ancient diggers") is an extinct family of non-specialized eutherian mammals from extinct order Palaeoryctida, that lived in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa from the late Cretaceous to the middle Eocene.