Phoxomylus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|60.2}} Late Paleocene

| taxon = Phoxomylus

| authority = Fox, 2011

| type_species = †P. puncticuspis

| type_species_authority = Fox, 2011

}}

Phoxomylus is an extinct genus of palaechthonid plesiadapiform which existed in Alberta, Canada, during the late Paleocene (earliest Tiffanian age).{{Cite journal|author=Richard C. Fox |year=2011 |title=An unusual early primate from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation, Alberta, Canada |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20090079.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.4202/app.2009.0079|doi-access=free }} It was first named by Richard C. Fox in 2011 and the type species is Phoxomylus puncticuspis. The holotype exposed in Paskapoo Formation by Gordon P. Youzwyshyn on 10 July 1988.

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