Lesmesodon

Lesmesodon; Temporal range: Eocene
	Fossil in Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Hyaenodonta
Family:	Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:	Proviverrinae
Genus:	Lesmesodon
Species:	L. edingeri

Lesmesodon is an extinct genus of hyaenodontid that lived during the Eocene.^[1] It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany.

In Popular Culture

Lesmesodon is featured in the first episode of the series Walking with Beasts, where it is not properly identified and is devoured at the edge of a lake by an Ambulocetus. In the companion book, it is identified as a creodont. Its CGI model in Walking with Beasts was virtually identical to that of the Cynodictis featured in the third episode.

References

^ Egi, N.; Holroyd, P. A.; Tsubamoto, T.; Soe, A. N.; Takai, M.; Ciochon, R. L. (2005). "Proviverrine hyaenodontids (Creodonta: Mammalia) from the Eocene of Myanmar and a phylogenetic analysis of the proviverrines from the Para‐Tethys area". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 3 (4): 337. doi:10.1017/S1477201905001707.

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[1] Egi, N.; Holroyd, P. A.; Tsubamoto, T.; Soe, A. N.; Takai, M.; Ciochon, R. L. (2005). "Proviverrine hyaenodontids (Creodonta: Mammalia) from the Eocene of Myanmar and a phylogenetic analysis of the proviverrines from the Para‐Tethys area". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 3 (4): 337. doi:10.1017/S1477201905001707.

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