Carodnia is an extinct genus of South American ungulate known from the Early Eocene of Brazil, Argentina, and Peru.
Carodnia is placed in the order Xenungulata together with Etayoa and Notoetayoa.
Carodnia
Size comparison between a human and C. vieirai
Xenungulata is an order of extinct and primitive South American hoofed mammals that lived from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene. Fossils of the order are known from deposits in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. The best known member of this enigmatic order is the genus Carodnia, a tapir-like and -sized animal with a gait similar to living African elephants.
Xenungulata