Palaeoryctes
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Palaeoryctes ("ancient digger") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of mammals from paraphyletic subfamily Palaeoryctinae within family Palaeoryctidae, that lived in North America and Africa from middle Paleocene to early Eocene.
Palaeoryctes resembled a modern shrew, being slender and sharp-nosed, with typical insectivore teeth. It was around long, and weighed around . The molars of Palaeoryctes had little function other than piercing.
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Gypsonictops
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Africa
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North America
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Soricidae
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Jurassic
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Cretaceous
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Cambrian
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