Oxyaeninae ("sharp hyenas") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Asia, North America and Europe from the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.[1][2]
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| Patriofelis ferox skeleton | |
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| Reconstruction of Sarkastodon mongoliensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Oxyaeninae Trouessart, 1885 |
| Type genus | |
| †Oxyaena Cope, 1874 | |
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Etymology
The name of the subfamily translates as "sharp hyaenas" (from Ancient Greek ὀξύς- (oxús-) 'sharp', name of hyena genus Hyaena and taxonomic suffix "-inae").[3]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
- Subfamily: †Oxyaeninae (Cope, 1877)
- Genus: †Argillotherium (Davies, 1884)
- †Argillotherium toliapicum (Davies, 1884)
- Genus: †Dipsalidictis(paraphyletic genus) (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Dipsalidictis aequidens (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Dipsalidictis krausei (Gunnell & Gingerich, 1991)
- †Dipsalidictis platypus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Dipsalidictis transiens (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- Genus: †Malfelis (Stucky & Hardy, 2007)
- †Malfelis badwaterensis (Stucky & Hardy, 2007)[4]
- Genus: †Oxyaena (Cope, 1874)
- †Oxyaena forcipata (Cope, 1874)
- †Oxyaena gulo (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Oxyaena intermedia (Denison, 1938)
- †Oxyaena lupina (Cope, 1874)
- †Oxyaena pardalis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Oxyaena simpsoni (Van Valen, 1966)
- †Oxyaena woutersi (Lange-Badré & Godinot, 1982)
- †Oxyaena sp. [Europe] (Solé, 2011)
- Genus: †Patriofelis (Leidy, 1870)
- †Patriofelis ferox (Marsh, 1872)
- †Patriofelis ulta (Leidy, 1870)
- Genus: †Protopsalis (Cope, 1880)
- †Protopsalis tigrinus (Cope, 1880)
- Genus: †Sarkastodon (Granger, 1938)
- †Sarkastodon henanensis (Tong & Lei, 1986)
- †Sarkastodon mongoliensis (Granger, 1938)
- Genus: †Argillotherium (Davies, 1884)
References
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