Hyaenodonta

Hyaenodonta
Temporal range: Late Paleocene–Late Miocene
Tritemnodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Creodonta
Clade: †Hyaenodonta
L. Van Valen, 1967
Families
  • †Proviverridae
  • †Limnocyonidae
  • †Hyaenodontidae
  • †Hyainailouridae

Hyaenodonta (sometimes referred as "Hyaenodontida"[1]) is an extinct group of hypercarnivorous eutherian mammals,[2] originally classified along with the oxyaenids as part of Creodonta.[3] Hyaenodonts may have evolved in Africa in the Paleocene.[4]

Classification

The following classification is based on Solé et al. (2015):[2]

References

  1. ↑ Morlo, M., Bastl, K., Wenhao, W., & Schaal, S. F. (2014). The first species of Sinopa (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from outside of North America: implications for the history of the genus in the Eocene of Asia and North America. Palaeontology, 57(1), 111-125.
  2. 1 2 Solé, F.; Amson, E.; Borths, M.; Vidalenc, D.; Morlo, M.; Bastl, K. (2015-09-23). "A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)". PLoS ONE. 10 (9): e0135698. PMID 26398622. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135698.
  3. ↑ Lambert, David and the Diagram Group (1985): The Field Guide to Prehistoric Life. Facts on File Publications, New York. ISBN 0-8160-1125-7
  4. ↑ Solé, F.; Lhuillier, J.; Adaci, M.; Bensalah, M.; Mahboubi, M.; Tabuce, R. (2013-07-16). "The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (3): 303–322. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.795196.
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