Aenigmamys
Appearance
Aenigmamys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Multituberculata |
Family: | †Ptilodontidae |
Genus: | †Aenigmamys |
Species: | †A. aries
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Binomial name | |
†Aenigmamys aries Scott, 2021
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Aenigmamys is an extinct genus of ptilodontid that lived during the Danian stage of the Palaeocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Aenigmamys aries is known from fossils from the Willow Creek Formation of Alberta.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Scott, Craig S. (7 May 2021). "First mammal from the Willow Creek Formation: a new early Paleocene ptilodontid (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from near Calgary, Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58 (6): 505–518. doi:10.1139/cjes-2020-0151. ISSN 0008-4077. Retrieved 24 June 2025 – via Canadian Science Publishing.