Dissopsalini
Dissopsalini Temporal range: Early to Late Miocene | |
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Comparison of various Early to Middle Miocene hyaenodonts, including the hyainailurids Hyainailouros sulzeri (top) and Megistotherium osteothlastes (center), and teratodontid Dissopsalis carnifex | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
Family: | †Teratodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Teratodontinae |
Tribe: | †Dissopsalini Morales & Pickford, 2017 |
Type genus | |
†Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910 | |
Genera | |
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Dissopsalini ("double scissors") is an extinct tribe of teratodontid hyaenodonts. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Miocene deposits in Asia and Africa.
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