Beornus
| Beornus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Periptychidae |
| Genus: | † |
| Species: | †B. honeyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Beornus honeyi Atteberry & Eberle, 2021
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Beornus is an extinct genus of periptychid that lived in North America during the Danian stage of the Palaeocene epoch.
Distribution
Beornus honeyi is known from Puercan layers of the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.[1]
References
- ^ Atteberry, Madelaine R.; Eberle, Jaelyn J. (18 April 2021). "New earliest Paleocene (Puercan) periptychid 'condylarths' from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (8): 565–593. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1924301. ISSN 1477-2019. Retrieved 24 June 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.