Pterodon (mammal)

Pterodon Temporal range: 37–28 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Eocene - Early Oligocene

Pterodon dasyuroides skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Family:	†Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:	†Hyainailourinae
Genus:	†Pterodon
Type species
Pterodon dasyuroides Blainville, 1839
Species
P. dasyuroides Blainville 1839 P. africanus 1903 P. syrtos Holroyd 1999

Pterodon is an extinct genus of superficially wolf-like hyaenodontids that lived during the late Eocene, 30 million years ago.^[1]

References

↑ Egi, N.; Tsubamoto, T.; Takai, M. (July 2007). "Systematic Status of Asian "Pterodon" and Early Evolution of Hyaenaelurine Hyaenodontid Creodonts". Journal of Paleontology (The Paleontological Society) 81 (4): 770–778. doi:10.1666/pleo0022-3360(2007)081[0770:SSOAPA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360.

Creodonts

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Creodonta

Hyaenodontidae

Tritemnodon Oxyaenoides Galecyon

Hyaenodontinae	Hyaenodon Isohyaenodon Pyrocyon

Hyainailourinae	Apterodon Hyaenaelurus Megistotherium Pterodon

Limnocyoninae	Limnocyon

Proviverrinae	Indohyaenodon Cynohyaenodon Proviverra Sinopa

Oxyaenidae

Ambloctoninae	Palaeonictis

Oxyaeninae	Oxyaena Patriofelis Sarkastodon

Tytthaeninae	Tytthaena

Machaeroidinae	Machaeroides

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