Hyaenodon
Hyaenodon Temporal range: Middle Eocene to Early Miocene | |
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Mounted H. sp. skeleton, Science Museum of Minnesota | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Hyaenodontinae |
Tribe: | †Hyaenodontini Leidy, 1869 |
Genus: | †Hyaenodon Laizer & Parieu, 1838 |
Type species | |
†Hyaenodon leptorhynchus Laizer and Parieu, 1838 | |
Species | |
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Hyaenodon ("hyena-tooth") is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from extinct tribe Hyaenodontini within extinct subfamily Hyaenodontinae (in extinct family Hyaenodontidae), that lived in Eurasia and North America from the middle Eocene, throughout the Oligocene, to the early Miocene.
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