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Extinct genus of carnivores
Oodectes
Temporal range: 53.0–46.2 Ma early to middle Eocene |
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part of lower jaw of Oodectes herpestoides |
Scientific classification ![Edit this classification](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png) |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Oodectes Wortman, 1901 |
Type species |
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†Oodectes herpestoides
Wortman, 1901 |
Species |
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- †O. herpestoides (Wortman, 1901)[1]
- †O. jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)[2]
- †O. proximus (Matthew, 1909)[3]
- †O. pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)[4]
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Synonyms |
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- Oödectes (Wortman, 1901)[misspelling]
- Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967)[5][6]
- Paeneprolimnocyon amissadomus (Guthrie, 1967)
- Triacodon nanus (Marsh, 1872)[7]
- Miacis jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)[8]
- Paeneprolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967)
- Prolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967)
- Uintacyon pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
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Oodectes ("egg biter") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[9][10]
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other representatives | |
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ichnotaxa of Hyaenodonta | - †Creodontipus
- †Dischidodacylus
- †Sarcotherichnus
- †Zanclonychopus
- †Hyaenodontipus
- †Quiritipes
- †Sarjeantipes
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