Dissopsalis

{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}

{{Distinguish|Dissacus}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|16.1|8.8}} middle to late Miocene

|image = Megistotherium osteothlastes.JPG

|image_caption = Comparison of various Early to Middle Miocene hyaenodonts, including the hyainailurids Hyainailouros sulzeri (top) and Megistotherium osteothlastes (center), and teratodontid Dissopsalis pyroclasticus

|image2 = Dissopsalis carnifex.jpg

|image2_caption = Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401

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|taxon = Dissopsalis

|authority = Pilgrim, 1910

|type_species = †Dissopsalis carnifex

|type_species_authority = Pilgrim, 1910

|subdivision_ranks = Species

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• †D. carnifex {{small|(Pilgrim, 1910)}}Pilgrim, G. E. (1910.) "Preliminary note on a revised classification of the Tertiary freshwater deposits in India." Records Geological Survey of India, 40, 185-205.
• †D. pyroclasticus {{small|(Savage, 1965)}}R. J. G. Savage (1965.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36359760#page/379/mode/1up "Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa."] Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316

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|Dissopsalis ruber {{small|(Pilgrim, 1910)}}

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Dissopsalis ('double scissors') is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct tribe Dissopsalini within family Teratodontidae.{{Cite journal |author1=Jorge Morales |author2=Martin Pickford |year=2017 |title=New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia) |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=3–4 |pages=332–359 |doi=10.2478/if-2017-0019 |s2cid=31350436 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/07_Morales_Pickford_2017.pdf}}{{cite journal |last1=Borths |first1=M. R. |last2=Seiffert |first2=E. R. |date=April 2017 |title=Craniodental and humeral morphology of a new species of Masrasector (Teratodontinae, Hyaenodonta, Placentalia) from the late Eocene of Egypt and locomotor diversity in hyaenodonts |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=e0173527 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0173527|pmid=28422967 |pmc=5396875 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1273527B |doi-access=free }} The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene (15.0 to 9.0 Ma), while the type species, D. carnifex, lived in Pakistan and India during the middle to late Miocene (16.1 to 8.8 Ma).Barry, J. C. (1988.) "Dissopsalis, a middle and late Miocene proviverrine creodont (Mammalia) from Pakistan and Kenya." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 48(1): 25–45 Dissopsalis is the last known hyaenodont genus.