Dissopsalis

Dissopsalis Temporal range:
Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Family:	†Teratodontidae
Tribe:	†Dissopsalini
Genus:	†Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910
Type species
Dissopsalis carnifex
Species
D. carnifex D. pyroclasticus

Dissopsalis is a genus of extinct predatory mammals of the family Hyaenodontidae. The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene, while the type species, D. carnifex, ranged from, Pakistan, India to China during the middle to late Miocene (Barry, 1988).

Dissopsalis is the last known hyaenodontid genus. It lived alongside its relative Hyaenodon weilini, a member of the very successful genus Hyaenodon, during the Miocene in China, and survived to the end of the Miocene, whereas H. weilini did not.

Species

• Genus Dissopsalis
  • Dissopsalis carnifex
  • Dissopsalis pyroclasticus

References

• Barry, J. C. (1988): Dissopsalis, a middle and late Miocene proviverrine creodont (Mammalia) from Pakistan and Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 48(1): 25-45.