Palaeomyrmidon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of anteaters}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|6.8|3|Late Miocene-Pliocene (Montehermosan-Chapadmalalan)}}

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| genus = Palaeomyrmidon

| parent_authority = Rovereto, 1914

| species = incomtus

| authority = Rovereto, 1914

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Palaeomyrmidon is an extinct genus of anteater. Its closest living relative is the silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus).{{cite web|title=Palaeomyrmidon|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83038|publisher=Paleontology Database|access-date=2014-10-26}} Although the silky anteater is arboreal, Palaeomyrmidon lived on the ground. Palaeomyrmidon is known from a fossil skull that was found in the Andalhualá Formation of Argentina.{{cite web|title=Neotamandua|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43655|publisher=Paleontology Database|access-date=2012-07-23}}Rovereto, Cayetano. 1914. Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 25: 1-247.