Hyaenodontinae

Hyaenodontinae ("hyena teeth") is an extinct subfamily of predatory placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early Eocene to early Miocene deposits in Europe, Asia and North America.[3][4][5]

Hyaenodontinae
Temporal range: 55.2–16.9 Ma Early Eocene to Early Miocene
skull of Hyaenodon horridus
dentary fragment of Propterodon witteri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:Hyaenodontoidea
Family:Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:Hyaenodontinae
Leidy, 1869[1]
Type genus
Hyaenodon
Laizer & Parieu, 1838
Genera
Synonyms
  • Hyaenodontidae (Leidy, 1869)
  • Hyaenodontini (Van Valen, 1965)[2]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Subfamily: †Hyaenodontinae (Trouessart, 1885)
    • Genus: †Consobrinus (Lange-Badre, 1979)
      • Consobrinus quercy (Lange-Badre, 1979)
    • Genus: †Propterodon (paraphyletic genus) (Martin, 1906)
      • Propterodon morrisi (Matthew & Granger, 1924)
      • Propterodon paganensis (de Bonis, 2018)
      • Propterodon tongi (Liu & Huang, 2002)
      • Propterodon witteri (Zack, 2019)
    • Tribe: †Epipterodontini (Lavrov, 1999)
      • Genus: †Epipterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
        • Epipterodon hyaenoides (Matthew & Granger, 1925)
      • Genus: †Immanopterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
        • Immanopterodon acutidens (Lavrov, 1999)
        • Immanopterodon implacidus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Tribe: †Hyaenodontini (Leidy, 1869)
      • Genus: †Hyaenodon (Laizer & Parieu, 1838)
        • Hyaenodon brachyrhynchus (Blainville, 1841)
        • Hyaenodon chunkhtensis (Dashzeveg, 1985)
        • Hyaenodon dubius (Filhol, 1873)
        • Hyaenodon eminus (Matthew & Granger, 1925)
        • Hyaenodon exiguus (Gervais, 1873)
        • Hyaenodon filholi (Schlosser, 1887)
        • Hyaenodon gervaisi (Martin, 1906)
        • Hyaenodon heberti (Filhol, 1876)
        • Hyaenodon leptorhynchus (Laizer & Parieu, 1838)
        • Hyaenodon minor (Lange-Badré, 1979)
        • Hyaenodon pervagus (Matthew & Granger, 1924)
        • Hyaenodon pumilus (Lavrov, 1999)
        • Hyaenodon requieni (Gervais, 1846)
        • Hyaenodon rossignoli (Lange-Badré, 1979)
        • Hyaenodon weilini (Wang, 2005)
        • Hyaenodon yuanchuensis (Young, 1937)
        • Subgenus: †Neohyaenodon (paraphyletic subgenus) (Thorpe, 1922)
          • Hyaenodon gigas (Dashzeveg, 1985)
          • Hyaenodon horridus (Leidy, 1853)
          • Hyaenodon incertus (Dashzeveg, 1985)
          • Hyaenodon macrocephalus (Lavrov, 1999)
          • Hyaenodon megaloides (Mellett, 1977)
          • Hyaenodon milvinus (Lavrov, 1999)
          • Hyaenodon mongoliensis (Dashzeveg, 1964)
          • Hyaenodon montanus (Douglass, 1902)
          • Hyaenodon vetus (Stock, 1933)
        • Subgenus: †Protohyaenodon (paraphyletic subgenus) (Stock, 1933)
          • Hyaenodon brevirostrus (Macdonald, 1970)
          • Hyaenodon crucians (Leidy, 1853)
          • Hyaenodon microdon (Mellett, 1977)
          • Hyaenodon mustelinus (Scott, 1894)
          • Hyaenodon raineyi (Gustafson, 1986)
          • Hyaenodon venturae (Mellett, 1977)

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