Cleopatrodon
| Cleopatrodon Temporal range: Oligocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Ptolemaiida |
| Family: | † Ptolemaiidae |
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† Cleopatrodon Bown & Simons, 1987 |
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Cleopatrodon ayeshae Bown & Simons, 1987 |
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Cleopatrodon is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Ptolemaiida. Two species are known from the Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day Egypt: C. ayeshae, and the more powerfully built C. robusta. The genus is named for Cleopatra, the ancient Queen of Egypt.
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