Isohyaenodon
| Isohyaenodon Temporal range: Early Miocene
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Isohyaenodon is an extinct genus of hyaenodont mammal of the family Hyainailouridae. Remains are known from early Miocene deposits in Kenya, East Africa.
Description
Isohyaenodon is distinguished from Hyaenodon in having more robust molars, lower molars with a subequal paraconid and protoconid, and upper molars with a more well-developed protocone.[1]
Taxonomy
Isohyaenodon was considered possibly the same genus as Leakitherium from the same region by Van Valen (1967),[2] but subsequent studies have rejected this assumption.[3][4]
Isohyaenodon pilgrimi Savage, 1965 was formerly assigned to this genus, but has been renamed Exiguodon.[4]
References
- ^ Morales, J., Pickford, M., Soria, D. (1998): A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia). – Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes, 327: 633–638.
- ^ Valen, L. van (1967): New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classifi cation. – Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 135: 217–284.
- ^ Solé F, Amson E, Borths M, Vidalenc D, Morlo M, Bastl K (2015) A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia). PLoS ONE 10(9): e0135698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135698
- ^ a b Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford (2017). "New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)" (PDF). Fossil Imprint. 73 (3–4): 332–359. doi:10.1515/if-2017-0019.
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