Aenigmamys
| Aenigmamys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Multituberculata |
| Family: | †Ptilodontidae |
| Genus: | †Aenigmamys |
| Species: | †A. aries
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| †Aenigmamys aries Scott, 2021
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Aenigmamys is an extinct genus of ptilodontid that lived during the Danian stage of the Palaeocene epoch. It contains the single species Aenigmamys aries.
Distribution
[edit]Aenigmamys aries is known from fossils from the Willow Creek Formation of Alberta.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Scott, Craig S. (7 May 2021). "First mammal from the Willow Creek Formation: a new early Paleocene ptilodontid (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from near Calgary, Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58 (6): 505–518. doi:10.1139/cjes-2020-0151. ISSN 0008-4077.