Oodectes

Oodectes [1]
Temporal range: late Paleocene–Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivoramorpha
Family: Miacidae
Genus: Oodectes
Wortman, 1901
Type species
Oodectes herpestoides
Species
  • O. herpestoides
  • O. jepseni
Synonyms
  • Paeneprolimnocyon Guthrie, 1967
  • Oödectes Wortman, 1901 [misspelling]

Oodectes is an extinct genus of Miacidae.

Notes

  1. Giles T. MacIntyre & Daniel A. Guthrie (1979). "Paeneprolimnocyon Guthrie, 1967, a junior synonym of Oodectes Wortman, 1901". Journal of Paleontology 53 (4): 1034–1036. JSTOR 304127.

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