Metapterodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|33.9|15.0}} early Oligocene to early Miocene

|image = Metapterodon brachycephalus.jpg

|image_caption = part of a lower jaw of
Metapterodon brachycephalus

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|taxon = Metapterodon

|parent_authority = Morales & Pickford, 2017{{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}}

|authority = Stromer, 1926

|type_species = †Metapterodon kaiseri

|type_species_authority = Stromer, 1926

|subdivision_ranks = Species

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• †M. brachycephalus {{small|(Osborn, 1909)}}H. F. Osborn (1909.) [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/1452//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B026a28.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt."] Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:415-424
• †M. kaiseri {{small|(Stromer, 1926)}}Stromer, E. (1926.) "Reste land und süsswasser bewohnender Wirbeltiere aus dem Diamentenfelden Deutsch Südwestafrikas." In: Kaiser, E. (ed.), "Die Diamantenwüste Südwestafrikas, vol. 2." Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, pp. 107–153.
• †M. stromeri {{small|(Morales, 1998)}}J. Morales, M. Pickford and D. Soria (1998.) [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1251805099801189 "A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia)."] Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 327(9):633-638.

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|Afropterodon {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}A. V. Lavrov (1999.) [https://static.freereferats.ru/_avtoreferats/01000233253.pdf "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia."] in 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, p. 138 [in Russian].

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|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=M. brachycephalus:

|Afropterodon brachycephalus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Isohyaenodon brachycephalus {{small|(Savage, 1965)}}R. J. G. Savage (1965.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36359760#page/379/mode/1up "Fossil Mammals of Africa: The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa."] Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316

|Hyaenodon brachycephalus {{small|(Osborn, 1909)}}

|Protohyaenodon brachychephalus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon brachycephalus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Pterodon brachycephalus {{small|(Van Valen, 1967)}}L. Van Valen (1967.) [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/358 "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification."] Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284

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Metapterodon ("next to Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts of the subfamily Hyainailourinae, that lived in Africa during the early Oligocene to early Miocene.{{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}} Fossils of Metapterodon were recovered from the Egypt, Uganda, Elisabeth Bay Formation in Namibia, and Rusinga Island and Karungu in Kenya.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40925 Metapterodon] at Fossilworks.org