Abdounodus

Abdounodus Temporal range: Paleocene 61–59 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
A. hamdii lower jaw
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Superorder:	Afrotheria
Genus:	Abdounodus Gheerbrant & Sudre, 2001
Species:	A. hamdii
Binomial name
Abdounodus hamdii Gheerbrant & Sudre, 2001

Abdounodus ("Abdoun tooth") is an extinct genus of mammal known from the middle Paleocene of northern Africa. The sole species, A. hamdii, is known from teeth discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of present-day Morocco in 2001. Traditionally considered a mioclaenid "condylarth", recent studies place it as a basal afrothere closely related to Ocepeia, demonstrating the close convergent evolution between perissodactyls and herbivorous afrotheres and bridging paenungulates with other afrotheres.