Hyaenodonta

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Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia		Phylum Chordata Order †Creodonta

Clade †Hyaenodonta L. Van Valen, 1967

Hyaenodonta (sometimes referred as "Hyaenodontida") is an extinct group of hypercarnivorous eutherian mammals, originally classified along with the oxyaenids as part of Creodonta. Hyaenodonts may have evolved in Africa in the Paleocene.

Classification

The following classification is based on Solé et al. (2015):

Family Proviverridae

Genus Allopterodon

Genus Arfia

Genus Boualitomus

Genus Cynohyaenodon

Genus Eurotherium

Genus Indohyaenodon

Genus Kyawdawia

Genus Leonhardtina

Genus Masrasector

Genus Paracynohyaenodon

Genus Paratritemnodon

Genus Prodissopsalis

Genus Prototomus

Genus Proviverra

Genus Sinopa (syn. Stypolophus, Triacodon)

Genus Tinerhodon

Family Limnocyonidae

Genus Iridodon

Genus Limnocyon (syn. Telmatocyon)

Genus Oxyaenodon

Genus Prolimnocyon

Family Hyaenodontidae

Genus Thinocyon

Genus Hyaenodon

Genus Metapterodon

Genus Neoparapterodon

Genus Pyrocyon

Family Hyainailouridae

Subfamily Apterodontinae

Genus Anasinopa

Genus Apterodon (syn. Dasyurodon)

Genus Buhakia

Genus Dissopsalis

Genus Francotherium

Subfamily Hyainailourinae

Genus Hemipsalodon

Genus Paroxyaena

Genus Pterodon

Genus Akhnatenavus

Genus Leakitherium

Genus Isohyaenodon

Genus Hyainailouros (syn. Sivapterodon),

Genus Megistotherium

Genus Metasinopa

Incertae sedis

Genus Acarictis

Genus Alienetherium

Genus Consobrinus

Genus Galecyon

Genus Gazinocyon

Genus Geiselotherium

Genus Hyaenodontipus

Genus Imperatoria

Genus Ischnognathus

Genus Orienspterodon

Genus Oxyaenoides

Genus Paenoxyaenoides

Genus Parapterodon

Genus Paravagula

Genus Praecodens

Genus Prolaena

Genus Propterodon

Genus Proviverroides

Genus Quasiapterodon

Genus Quercitherium

Genus Schizophagus

Genus Teratodon

Genus Thereutherium

Genus Tritemnodon

Genus Yarshea

References

Hyaenodonta Wikipedia

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