Hemipsalodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|41.2|37.0}} Middle to Late Eocene

|image = Hemipsalodon skull.jpg

|image_caption = Skull of Hemipsalodon grandis

|image2 = Hemipsalodon grandisDB.jpg

|image2_caption = Restoration of H. grandis

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Hemipsalodon

|authority = Cope, 1885

|type_species = †Hemipsalodon grandis

|type_species_authority = Cope, 1885

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• †H. grandis {{small|(Cope, 1885)}}E. D. Cope (1885.) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2450040?seq=1 "The White River beds of Swift Current River, Northwest Territory."] American Naturalist 19(2):163
• †H. viejaensis {{small|(Gustafson, 1986)}}E. P. Gustafson (1986.) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278410371_Carnivorous_mammals_of_the_Late_Eocene_and_Early_Oligocene_of_Trans-Pecos_Texas "Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas."] Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66

|synonyms =

{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of species:

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=H. grandis:

|Hemipsalodon cooki {{small|(Schlaikjer, 1935)}}{{cite journal |last=Schlaikjer |first=Erich M. |year=1935 |title=Contributions to the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Goshen Hole area, Wyoming. III. A new basal Oligocene formation |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=71–93 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866353}}

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Hemipsalodon ("half-scissor tooth") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts from the subfamily Hyainailourinae that lived in North America during the middle to late Eocene.{{cite book |last1=McKenna |first1=Malcolm C. |last2=Bell |first2=Susan K. |title=Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLYifwU8bqQC&pg=PP9 |access-date=16 March 2015 |year=1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-231-11012-9}}G. F. Gunnell (1998.) "Creodonta". In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=I-RgojcDyWYC "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals"], Cambridge University Press, 703 pages {{page|year=|isbn=9780521355193|pages=}}