Phoxomylus

Phoxomylus Temporal range: 60.2 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Late Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Plesiadapiformes
Family:	?Palaechthonidae
Subfamily:	?Plesiolestinae
Genus:	Phoxomylus Fox, 2011
Species
P. puncticuspis Fox, 2011 (type)

Phoxomylus is an extinct genus of palaechthonid plesiadapiform which existed in Alberta, Canada, during the late Paleocene (earliest Tiffanian age).^[1] It was first named by Richard C. Fox in 2011 and the type species is Phoxomylus puncticuspis.^[1] The holotype exposed in Paskapoo Formation by Gordon P. Youzwyshyn on 10 July, 1988.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Richard C. Fox (2011). "An unusual early primate from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation, Alberta, Canada" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (1): 1–10. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0079.

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