''Lohoodon'' is a genus of hapalodectid

mesonychian Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls. Mesonychids first appeared in the early Paleocene, went into a sharp decline at the end of the Eocene, and died out entirely ...

s which lived during the middle

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. Fossils of ''Lohoodon'' are found in middle Eocene-aged strata of

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and

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.Xiaoyuan Zhou, Renjie Zhai, Gingerich, P. D., & Liezu Chen. (1995). Skull of a New Mesonychid (Mammalia, Mesonychia) from the Late Paleocene of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(2), 387–400. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4523638

Species

*Genus ''Lohoodon'' **''L. lushiensis''

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Ancient Nature
Mesonychids Eocene mammals of Asia Prehistoric placental genera {{paleo-mammal-stub