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Apterodontinae

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Apterodontinae
Temporal range: 54.51–37.2 Ma Late Eocene to Middle Oligocene
Two views of the skull of
Apterodon macrognathus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyainailouroidea
Family: Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: Apterodontinae
Szalay, 1967[1]
Type genus
Apterodon
Fischer, 1880
Genera
Synonyms
  • Apterodontini (Szalay, 1967)

Apterodontinae ("without winged tooth") is an extinct subfamily of hyainailourid hyaenodonts that lived in Africa and Europe during the late Eocene to middle Oligocene.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Classification and phylogeny

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Taxonomy

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  • Subfamily: †Apterodontinae (Szalay, 1967)
    • Genus: †Apterodon (Fischer, 1880)
      • Apterodon altidens (Schlosser, 1910)
      • Apterodon gaudryi (Fischer, 1880)
      • Apterodon langebadreae (Grohé, 2012)
      • Apterodon macrognathus (Andrews, 1904)
      • Apterodon rauenbergensis (Frey, 2010)
      • Apterodon saghensis (Simons & Gingerich, 1976)
      • Apterodon sp. [Dur At-Talah escarpment, Libya] (Grohé, 2012)
    • Genus: †Quasiapterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
      • Quasiapterodon minutus (Schlosser, 1910)

References

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  1. ^ Szalay, F. S. (1967.) "The affinities of Apterodon (Deltatheridia, Hyaenodontdae)." American Museum Novitates 2293, 1–17.
  2. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  3. ^ B. Lange-Badré and M. Böhme (2005.) "Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European Creodont Mammal from MP22 of Espenhain (Germany)." Annales de Paléontologie 91:311-328
  4. ^ M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
  5. ^ Matthew R. Borths; Patricia A. Holroyd; Erik R. Seiffert (2016). "Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia)". PeerJ. 4: e2639. doi:10.7717/peerj.2639. PMC 5111901. PMID 27867761.
  6. ^ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2017). "The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0185301. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1285301B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185301. PMC 5636082. PMID 29020030.
  7. ^ Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (2): 275–290. doi:10.4202/app.00581.2018.