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''Almogaver'' is an extinct possible
odd-toed ungulate Odd-toed ungulates, mammals which constitute the taxonomic order Perissodactyla (, ), are animals—ungulates—who have reduced the weight-bearing toes to three (rhinoceroses and tapirs, with tapirs still using four toes on the front legs) o ...
genus in the family
Phenacodontidae Phenacodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous mammals traditionally placed in the “wastebasket taxon” Condylarthra, which may instead represent early-stage perissodactyls. They lived in the Paleocene and Eocene epochs (about 60 ...
. It was a ground-dwelling herbivore. It is known from the
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in
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, and some authorities consider it synonymous with '' Phenacodus''.Cuesta Ruiz-Colmenares, Eocene Mammals from Iberian Peninsula. 1997


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Condylarths Paleocene mammals of Europe Paleogene Spain Fossils of Spain Fossil taxa described in 1954 Nomina dubia Prehistoric placental genera {{paleo-mammal-stub