Epoicotheriidae ("strange beasts") is an extinct paraphyletic family of insectivorous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the middle Paleocene to early Oligocene. Epoicotheriids were fossorial mammals. Late Eocene/early Oligocene genera were highly specialized animals that were convergent with the talpids, golden moles and marsupial mole in the structure of their skulls and forelimbs, and would have had a similar lifestyle as subterranean burrowers. They are considered among the most specialized animals that have ever evolved
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Epoicotheriidae es una familia extinta de pangolines, mamíferos insectívoros endémicos de América del Norte que vivieron desde el Eoceno al Oligoceno, hace entre 55,4 y 33,9 millones de años aproximadamente.Los epoicotéridos eran animales altamente especializados que eran convergentes con los topos dorados de África en la estructura de sus cráneos y patas delanteras, y que habrían tenido un estilo de vida similar, viviendo en madrigueras subterráneas.
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