Afrodon is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family Adapisoriculidae. Its type species is Afrodon chleuhi, known from the late Palaeocene of Morocco. The other known species are Afrodon germanicus from the late Palaeocene of Germany and France, Afrodon tagourtensis from the early Eocene of Morocco, Afrodon ivani from the late Palaeocene of Spain, and Afrodon gheerbranti from the early Paleocene of Belgium.[1] Its range spread from the Cernaysian to the Grauvian in the European land mammal ages.

Afrodon
Temporal range: Danian-Ypresian (Cernaysian-Grauvian)
~66–48.6 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Adapisoriculidae
Genus: Afrodon
Gheerbrant, 1988
Type species
Afrodon chleuhi
Species
  • A. chleuhi Gheerbrant, 1988
  • A. germanicus (Russell, 1964)
  • A. tagourtensis Gheerbrant, 1993
  • A. ivani Lopez-Martinez & Pelaez-Campomanes, 1999
  • A. gheerbranti De Bast, Sigé & Smith, 2012

Distribution

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Fossils of Afrodon have been found in:[2]

Paleocene
Eocene

References

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  1. ^ Eric De Bast; Bernard Sigé & Thierry Smith (2012). "Diversity of the adapisoriculid mammals from the early Palaeocene of Hainin, Belgium". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57 (1): 35–52. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0115. link.
  2. ^ Afrodon at Fossilworks.org