Apterodon

Apterodon
Temporal range: Mid Eocene - Oligocene
Two views of the skull of A. macrognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Creodonta
Family: †Hyaenodontidae
Genus: †Apterodon
Fischer, 1880
Type species
Apterodon gaudryi
Fischer, 1880
Species

A. altidens Schlosser, 1910
 A. gaudryi Fischer, 1880
A. langebadreae Grohé et al. 2012
A. macrognathus (Andrews, 1904)
A. intermedius Lange-Badré & Böhme, 2005
A. saghensis Simons & Gingerich, 1976

Synonyms

Dasyurodon Andreae 1887

Apterodon is an extinct genus of Hyaenodontid mammal that lived from the mid Eocene through the Oligocene epoch. With the exception of the type species, A. gaudryi all species of Apterodon are known from Africa.[1] It is closely related to the African Quasiapterodon, and the two genera comprise the Hyaenodontid subfamily Apterodontinae.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grohé, Camille; Morlo, Michael; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Blondel, Cécile; Coster, Pauline; Valentin, Xavier; Salem, Mustapha; Bilal, Awad A.; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques; Brunet, Michel; Laudet, Vincent (2012). "New Apterodontinae (Hyaenodontida) from the Eocene Locality of Dur At-Talah (Libya): Systematic, Paleoecological and Phylogenetical Implications". PLoS ONE 7 (11): e49054. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049054.
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