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Tritemnodon

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Tritemnodon
Temporal range: Eocene
Tritemnodon agilis skeleton
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†Tritemnodon
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  • †T. strenuus Marsh, 1872
  • †T. agilis Matthew, 1906

Tritemnodon was a genus of hyaeanodontid which lived 54-38 million years ago. Fossils of this animal have been found in Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County, Wyoming. It was the size of a wolf.

Restoration

References

  • Naoko Eg et al. (2004). "A new genus and species of hyaenodontid creodont from the Pondaung Formation (Eocene, Myanmar)" Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(2): 502–506 doi:10.1671/2481.