Hyaenodon

Hyaenodon
Temporal range: Middle Eocene to Early Miocene
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
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Macropterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
  • Megalopterodon (Dashzeveg, 1964)
  • Microhyaenodon (Lavrov, 1999)
  • Neohyaenodon (Thorpe, 1922)
  • Protohyaenodon (Stock, 1933)
  • Pseudopterodon (Schlosser, 1887)
  • Taxotherium (Blainville, 1841)
synonyms of species:
  • H. brachyrhynchus:
    • Canis brachyrhynchus (Blainville, 1841)
    • Hyaenodon cuvieri (Pictet, 1853)
    • Hyaenodon leptorhynchus (Dujardin, 1840)
    • Hyaenodon parisiensis (Laurillard, 1845)
    • Hyaenodon vulpinus (Gervais, 1873)
    • Nasua parisiensis (Blainville, 1841)
    • Pterodon brachyrhynchus (Pomel, 1846)
    • Pterodon cuvieri (Pomel, 1846)
    • Taxotherium parisiense (Blainville, 1841)
  • H. brevirostrus:
    • Hyaenodon brevirostris (Joeckel, 1997)
    • Protohyaenodon brevirostrus (Mellett, 1977)
  • H. chunkhtensis:
    • Microhyaenodon chunkhtensis (Lavrov, 1999)
  • H. crucians:
    • Hyaenodon leptocephalus (Scott, 1888)
    • Hyaenodon minutus (Douglass, 1902)
    • Hyaenodon paucidens (Osborn & Wortman, 1894)
    • Protohyaenodon crucians (Mellett, 1977)
    • Prtohyaenodon crucians (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pseudopterodon minutus (Douglass, 1902)
  • H. dubius:
    • Hyaenodon aymardi (Filhol, 1882)
  • H. exiguus:
    • Hyaenodon exigus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pterodon exiguum (Gervais, 1873)
  • H. filholi:
    • Hyaenodon compressus (Filhol, 1876)
    • Hyaenodon vulpinus (Filhol, 1876)
    • Microhyaenodon filholi (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pseudopterodon ganodus (Schlosser, 1887)
  • H. gervaisi:
    • Hyaenodon ambiguus (Martin, 1906)
  • H. gigas:
    • Macropterodon zelenovi (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Neohyaenodon gigas (Lavrov, 1999)
  • H. heberti:
    • Hyaenodon arnaudi (Depéret, 1917)
  • H. horridus:
    • Hyaenodon cruentus (Leidy, 1853)
    • Neohyaenodon horridus (Thorpe, 1922)
    • Neohyaenodon semseyi (Kretzoi, 1941)
  • H. incertus:
    • Neohyaenodon incertus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pterodon exploratus (Dashzeveg, 1985)
  • H. leptorhynchus:
    • Canis leptorhynchus (Blainville, 1841)
    • Hyaenodon bavaricus (Dehm, 1935)
    • Hyaenodon cayluxi (Filhol, 1876)
    • Hyaenodon martini (Depéret, 1917)
    • Hyaenodon milloquensis (Martin, 1906)
    • Pterodon leptorhynchus (Pomel, 1846)
  • H. macrocephalus:
    • Neohyaenodon macrocephalus (Lavrov, 1999)
  • H. megaloides:
    • Neohyaenodon megaloides (Mellett, 1977)
  • H. microdon:
    • Microhyaenodon microdon (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Protohyaenodon microdon (Mellett, 1977)
  • H. milvinus:
    • Neohyaenodon milvinus (Lavrov, 1999)
  • H. minor:
    • Hyaenodon aimi (Cooper, 1926)
  • H. mongoliensis:
    • Epipterodon mongoliensis (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Megalopterodon mongoliensis (Dashzeveg, 1964)
    • Neohyaenodon mongoliensis (Morlo & Nagel, 2006)
    • Pterodon mongoliensis (Van Valen, 1967)
  • H. montanus:
    • Protohyaenodon montanus
    • Neohyaenodon montanus (Mellett, 1977)
  • H. mustelinus:
    • Protohyaenodon mustelinus (Scott, 1894)
  • H. pervagus:
    • Hyaenodon neimongoliensis (Huang & Zhu, 2002)
  • H. pumilus:
    • Microhyaenodon pumilus (Lavrov, 1999)
  • H. raineyi:
    • Microhyaenodon raineyi (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Protohyaenodon raineyi (Gustafson, 1986)
  • H. requieni:
    • Hyaenodon heberti euzetensis (Depéret, 1917)
    • Pterodon requieni (Gervais, 1846)
  • H. venturae:
    • Hyaenodon exiguus (Stock, 1933)
    • Microhyaenodon venturae (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Protohyaenodon exiguus (Stock, 1933)
    • Protohyaenodon venturae (Mellett, 1977)
  • H. vetus:
    • Neohyaenodon vetus (Mellett, 1977)
    • Pterodon californicus (Stock, 1933)
  • H. yuanchuensis:
    • Hyaenodon yuanchüensis (Young, 1937)

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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