Afrodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Danian-Ypresian (Cernaysian-Grauvian)
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| taxon = Afrodon

| authority = Gheerbrant, 1988

| type_species = Afrodon chleuhi

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• A. chleuhi Gheerbrant, 1988
• A. germanicus (Russell, 1964)
• A. tagourtensis Gheerbrant, 1993
• A. ivani Lopez-Martinez & Pelaez-Campomanes, 1999
• A. gheerbranti De Bast, Sigé & Smith, 2012

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Afrodon is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family Adapisoriculidae. Its type species is Afrodon chleuhi, known from the late Palaeocene of Morocco. The other known species are Afrodon germanicus from the late Palaeocene of Germany and France, Afrodon tagourtensis from the early Eocene of Morocco, Afrodon ivani from the late Palaeocene of Spain, and Afrodon gheerbranti from the early Paleocene of Belgium.{{cite journal |author=Eric De Bast |author2=Bernard Sigé |author3=Thierry Smith |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=Diversity of the adapisoriculid mammals from the early Palaeocene of Hainin, Belgium |url=http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100115.html |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=35–52 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0115|doi-access=free }} [https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100115.html link]. Its range spread from the Cernaysian to the Grauvian in the European land mammal ages.