Boualitomus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|55.8|54.0}} early Eocene

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|taxon = Boualitomus

|authority = Gheerbrant et. al., 2006{{Cite journal |last=Gheerbrant |first=Emmanuel |last2=Iarochene |first2=Mohamed |last3=Amaghzaz |first3=Mbarek |last4=Bouya |first4=BaâDi |date=1 July 2006 |title=Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/cup/geolmag/article/143/4/475/138357/Early-African-hyaenodontid-mammals-and-their |journal=Geological Magazine |language=en |volume=143 |issue=4 |pages=475–489 |doi=10.1017/S0016756806002032 |issn=0016-7568 |access-date=7 November 2024 |via=GeoScienceWorld}}

|type_species = †Boualitomus marocanensis

|type_species_authority = Gheerbrant et. al., 2006

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Boualitomus ("Bou Ali cutter") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct paraphyletic clade Boualitominae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in what is now Morocco during the earliest Eocene.{{cite journal |last1=Solé |first1=Floréal |last2=Gheerbrant |first2=Emmanuel |last3=Amaghzaz |first3=Mbarek |last4=Bouya |first4=Baâdi |title=Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2009 |volume=156 |issue=4 |pages=827–846 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x |doi-access=free}}