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Metamynodon
Knight Metamynodon
Restoration by Charles R. Knight
Information
Range United States (White River Fauna), Mongolia and China
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Perissodactyla
Family Amynodontidae
Genus Metamynodon
Species M. planifrons
M. chadronensis
M. mckinneyi
Conservation Status
EXSpecies
Extinct

The Metamynodon is an extinct genus of amynodont perissodactyls, and is among the longest lived genera of amynodonts, having first appeared during the late Eocene, and becoming extinct during the early Miocene, when it was supplanted by the semiaquatic rhinoceros, Teleoceras. Its fossils have been discovered in the United States (White River Fauna), Mongolia and China.

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