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| Apterodontinae | |
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| Two views of the skull of Apterodon macrognathus | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | † Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | † Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †
Apterodontinae Szalay, 1967 [1] |
| Type genus | |
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Apterodon Fischer, 1880
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| Genera | |
| Synonyms | |
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Apterodontinae ("without winged tooth") is an extinct subfamily of hyainailourid hyaenodonts that lived in Africa and Europe during the late Eocene to middle Oligocene. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
- Subfamily: †Apterodontinae (Szalay, 1967)
- Genus: †
Apterodon (Fischer, 1880)
- †Apterodon altidens (Schlosser, 1910)
- †Apterodon gaudryi (Fischer, 1880)
- †Apterodon langebadreae (Grohé, 2012)
- †Apterodon macrognathus (Andrews, 1904)
- †Apterodon rauenbergensis (Frey, 2010)
- †Apterodon saghensis (Simons & Gingerich, 1976)
- †Apterodon sp. [Dur At-Talah escarpment, Libya] (Grohé, 2012)
- Genus: †
Quasiapterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
- †Quasiapterodon minutus (Schlosser, 1910)
- Genus: †
Apterodon (Fischer, 1880)
References
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- ^ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2017). "The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0185301. Bibcode: 2017PLoSO..1285301B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185301. PMC 5636082. PMID 29020030.
- ^ Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (2): 275–290. doi: 10.4202/app.00581.2018.