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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
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Clade:
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Pan-Carnivora
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Clade:
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Carnivoramorpha
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Clade:
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Carnivoraformes
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Genus:
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Oodectes Wortman, 1901
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Type species
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†Oodectes herpestoides
Wortman, 1901
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Species
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- †O. herpestoides (Wortman, 1901)
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- †O. jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)
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- †O. proximus (Matthew, 1909)
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- †O. pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
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Synonyms
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- Oödectes (Wortman, 1901)[misspelling]
- Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967)
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- Paeneprolimnocyon amissadomus (Guthrie, 1967)
- Triacodon nanus (Marsh, 1872)
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- 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.
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References
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^ J. L. Wortman (1901)
"Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206
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^ Daniel A. Guthrie (1967.)
"The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming." Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 5:1-53
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^ W. D. Matthew (1909)
"The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
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^ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.)
"The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
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^ D. A. Guthrie (1967)
"Paeneprolimnocyon, a new genus of early Eocene limnocyonid (Mammalia, Creodonta)." Journal of Paleontology 41:1285-1287
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^ 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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^ O. C. Marsh (1872.)
"Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224
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^ Ronald E. Heinrich (1997.)
"Referral of Miacis jepseni Guthrie to Oödectes Wortman, and an assessment of phylogenetic relationships among early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)" Journal of Paleontology, Volume 71, Issue 6, pp. 1172 - 1178
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^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997).
Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.)
"Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
ISBN
9780521355193
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ichnotaxa of Hyaenodonta | |
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