Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodontidae is an extinct family of pantodont mammals known from the Late Paleocene to the Middle Eocene of Eurasia and North America.
thumb|left|The Late Eocene dinoceratan Gobiatherium major, and the pantodont [[Hypercoryphodon, of what is now Mongolia.]] The type genus Coryphodon is known from around the Paleocene-Eocene transition in Europe, western United States, northern Canada, and eastern Asia. The remaining genera are known exclusively from the middle Eocene of Asia.
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