Prodissopsalis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|46.3|37.8}} middle Eocene

|image = Prodissopsalis Geiseltal.jpg

|image_caption = lower jaw of Prodissopsalis eocaenicus

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|taxon = Prodissopsalis

|authority = Matthes, 1950

|type_species = †Prodissopsalis eocaenicus

|type_species_authority = Matthes, 1952

|subdivision_ranks = Species

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• †P. eocaenicus {{small|(Matthes, 1952)}}H. W. Matthes (1952.) [https://books.google.ba/books/about/Hallesches_Jahrbuch_f%C3%BCr_mitteldeutsche.html?id=EmwIAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y "I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal)."] Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:201-240
• †P. jimenezi {{small|(Salesa, 2023)}}{{cite journal |last1=Salesa |first1=M. J. |last2=Siliceo |first2=G. |last3=Antón |first3=M. |last4=Martínez |first4=I. |last5=Ortega |first5=F. |year=2023 |title=New data on the mammalian fauna from the late middle Eocene (MP 15–16) of Mazaterón (Soria, Spain): The youngest presence of the genus Prodissopsalis (Hyaenodonta, Hyaenodontidae) in Europe |journal=The Anatomical Record |doi=10.1002/ar.25223|hdl=10261/309311 |hdl-access=free }}

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|Imperatoria {{small|(Matthes, 1952)}}

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|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=P. eocaenicus:

|Geiselotherium robustum {{small|(Matthes, 1952)}}

|Imperatoria gallwitzi {{small|(Matthes, 1952)}}

|Imperatoria hageni {{small|(Matthes, 1952)}}

|Prodissopsalis ginsburgi {{small|(Calas, 1969)}}Calas G. (1969.) "Découverte d'un Créodonte dans le Lutétien du Bassin d'Aquitaine." C. R. Somm. Soc. géol. France, 8: 289-290.

|Prodissopsalis robustus {{small|(Springhorn, 1982)}}Springhorn, R. (1982.) [https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/pala/detail/A179/71088/Neue_Raubtiere_Mammalia_Creodonta_et_Carnivora_aus_dem_Lutetium_der_Grube_Messel_Deutschland "Neue Raubtiere (Mammalia: Creodonta et Carnivora) aus dem Lutetium der Grube Messel (Deutschland)."] Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 179, 105–141.

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Prodissopsalis ("before Dissopsalis") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae, that lived in Europe during the middle Eocene. P. eocaenicus fossils are known from France and the site of Geiseltal in Germany. P. jimenezi is known from Mazaterón in Spain.