Limnocyoninae Late | |
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Skull of Limnocyon verus | |
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lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Limnocyoninae Wortman, 1902[1] |
Type genus | |
†Limnocyon Marsh, 1872
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Genera | |
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Limnocyoninae ("swamp dogs") is a subfamily of extinct predatory mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from late Paleocene to late Eocene deposits in North America and Asia.[5] Limnocyonines had only two molars in the upper and lower dentition.[6]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
- Family: †Limnocyonidae (Wortman, 1902)
- Genus: †Iridodon (Morlo & Gunnell, 2003)
- †Iridodon datzae (Morlo & Gunnell, 2003)
- Genus: †Limnocyon (paraphyletic genus) (Marsh, 1872)
- †Limnocyon cuspidens (Morlo & Gunnell, 2005)
- †Limnocyon potens (Matthew, 1909)
- †Limnocyon verus (Marsh, 1872)
- Genus: †Oxyaenodon (Matthew, 1899)
- †Oxyaenodon dysodus (Matthew, 1899)
- Genus: †Prolaena (Xu, 1979)
- †Prolaena parva (Xu, 1979)
- Genus: †Prolimnocyon (paraphyletic genus) (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Prolimnocyon antiquus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Prolimnocyon atavus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Prolimnocyon chowi (Meng, 1998)
- †Prolimnocyon eerius (Gingerich, 1989)
- †Prolimnocyon haematus (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
- Genus: †Thinocyon (Marsh, 1872)
- †Thinocyon medius (Wortman, 1902)
- †Thinocyon velox (Marsh, 1872)
- Genus: †Iridodon (Morlo & Gunnell, 2003)
References
- ^ J. L. Wortman (1902.) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 13:197-206
- ^ L. Van Valen (1966.) "Deltatheridia, a new order of Mammals." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 132(1):1-126
- ^ A. V. Lavrov (1999.) "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia." in 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, p. 138 [in Russian].
- ^ Savage, R. J. G. (1973). "Megistotherium, gigantic hyaenodont from Miocene of Gebel Zelten, Libya". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 22 (7): 483–511. doi:10.5962/p.150151.
- ^ 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.
- ^ M. Morlo and G. F. Gunnell (2005.) "New species of Limnocyon (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the Bridgerian (middle Eocene)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):251-255