hyaenodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Eocene to Early Miocene (Ypresian to Burdigalian) {{fossil range|52.0|16.9}}

| image = Hyaenodon (1).jpg

| image_caption = Mounted H. sp. skeleton, Science Museum of Minnesota

| display_parents = 4

| parent_authority = Leidy, 1869Leidy J. (1869). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60918#page/7/mode/1up "On the extinct Mammalia of Dakota and Nebraska: including an account of some allied forms from other localities, together with a synopsis of the mammalian remains of North America."] Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 7: 1–472.

| taxon = Hyaenodon

| authority = Laizer & Parieu, 1838

| type_species = †Hyaenodon leptorhynchus

| type_species_authority = Laizer and Parieu, 1838

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{center|[see classification]}}

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

|Gobipterodon {{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].

|Macrohyaenodon {{small|(Lavrov & Emry, 1998)}}

|Macropterodon {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Megalopterodon {{small|(Dashzeveg, 1964)}}

|Microhyaenodon {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Neohyaenodon {{small|(Thorpe, 1922)}}

|Prohyaenodon {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon {{small|(Stock, 1933)}}

|Pseudopterodon {{small|(Schlosser, 1887)}}

|Taxotherium {{small|(Blainville, 1841)}}

}}

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

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

|Canis brachyrhynchus {{small|(Blainville, 1841)}}

|Hyaenodon brachyrhenchus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Hyaenodon cuvieri {{small|(Pictet, 1853)}}F. J. Pictet (1853.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48934#page/9/mode/1up "Traité de Paléontologie."] I (2^e edit.):584 p. + atlas 110 pl.

|Hyaenodon leptorhynchus {{small|(Dujardin, 1840)}}F. Dujardin (1840.) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k29690/f134.item "Note sur une tête fossile Hyaenodon trouvée au bord du Tarn, près de Rabastens."] Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, 10:134-135

|Hyaenodon parisiensis {{small|(Laurillard, 1845)}}Ch. Laurillard (1845.) "Hyaenodon." in: d'Orbigny: "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire naturelle 1-6": 767-769, Renard, Martinet édit., Paris

|Hyaenodon vulpinum {{small|(Filhol, 1877)}}

|Hyaenodon vulpinus {{small|(Gervais, 1873)}}

|Nasua parisiensis {{small|(Blainville, 1841)}}

|Pterodon brachyrhynchus {{small|(Pomel, 1846)}}A. Pomel (1846.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/240488#page/405/mode/1up "Note sur le Pterodon, genre voisin des Dasyures dont plusieurs espèces ont été trouvées dans les terrains tertiaires."] Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 4(2):385-393

|Pterodon cuvieri {{small|(Pomel, 1846)}}

|Taxotherium parisiense {{small|(Blainville, 1841)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon brevirostris {{small|(Joeckel, 1997)}}R. M. Joeckel, H. W. Bond and G. W. Kabalka (1997). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4523821 "Internal Anatomy of the Snout and Paranasal Sinuses of Hyaenodon (Mammalia, Creodonta)"] Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 440-446

|Protohyaenodon brevirostrus {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

}}

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

|Microhyaenodon chunkhtensis {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon leptocephalus {{small|(Scott, 1888)}}W. B. Scott (1888). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224106#page/171/mode/1up "On some new and little know creodonts."] Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9:155-185

|Hyaenodon minutus {{small|(Douglass, 1902)}}

|Hyaenodon paucidens {{small|(Osborn & Wortman, 1894)}}H. F. Osborn and J. L. Wortman (1894). [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/1568//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B006a07.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "Fossil mammals of the Lower Miocene White River beds. Collection of 1892."] Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 6(7):199-228

|Protohyaenodon crucians {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

|Prtohyaenodon crucians {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Pseudopterodon minutus {{small|(Douglass, 1902)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon aymardi {{small|(Filhol, 1882)}}H. Filhol (1882). "Étude des Mammifères de Ronzon (Haute-Loire)." Ann. Sci. géol., Paris, 12(3):270 p., 25 pl.

}}

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

|Hyaenodon exigus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Pterodon exiguum {{small|(Gervais, 1873)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon compressus {{small|(Filhol, 1876)}}

|Hyaenodon vulpinus {{small|(Filhol, 1876)}}

|Microhyaenodon filholi {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Pseudopterodon ganodus {{small|(Schlosser, 1887)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon ambiguous

|Hyaenodon ambiguus {{small|(Martin, 1906)}}

}}

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

|Macropterodon zelenovi {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Neohyaenodon gigas {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon arnaudi {{small|(Depéret, 1917)}}Depéret C. (1917). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112216#page/6/mode/1up "Monographie de la faune de mammiféres fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euget-les-Bains (Gard)."] Ann. Univ. Lyon (N. S.), Div. 1, 40, 1-288.

}}

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

|Hyaenodon cruentus {{small|(Leidy, 1853)}}

|Neohyaenodon horridus {{small|(Thorpe, 1922)}}

|Neohyaenodon semseyi {{small|(Kretzoi, 1941)}}Kretzoi, M. (1941). [http://epa.oszk.hu/01600/01635/00417/pdf/EPA01635_foldtani_kozlony_1941_71_04-06_170-176.pdf "Ausländische Säugetierfossilien der Ungarischen Museen. (1-4)"] Földtani Közlöny, vol. 71, nos. 4-6, pp. 1-6

}}

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

|Gobipterodon exploratus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Hyaenodon exploratus {{small|(Polly, 1993)}}P. D. Polly (1993.) [https://www.academia.edu/20068607/Hyaenodontidae_Creodonta_Mammalia_from_the_early_Eocene_Four_Mile_Fauna_and_their_biostratigraphic_implications "Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene Four Mile Fauna and their biostratigraphic implications."] PaleoBios, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 1-10

|Neohyaenodon incertus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Pterodon exploratus {{small|(Dashzeveg, 1985)}}

}}

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

|Canis leptorhynchus {{small|(Blainville, 1841)}}

|Hyaenodon bavaricus {{small|(Dehm, 1935)}}R. Dehm (1935). [http://publikationen.badw.de/de/001933670/pdf/CC%20BY "Über tertiäre Spaltenfüllungen im Fränkischen und Schwäbischen Jura [On Tertiary fissure fillings in the Franconian and Swabian Jura]."] Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 29:1-86

|Hyaenodon cayluxi {{small|(Filhol, 1876)}}

|Hyaenodon martini {{small|(Depéret, 1917)}}

|Hyaenodon milloquensis {{small|(Martin, 1906)}}

|Pterodon leptorhynchus {{small|(Pomel, 1846)}}

}}

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

|Neohyaenodon macrocephalus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

}}

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

|Neohyaenodon megaloides {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

}}

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

|Microhyaenodon microdon {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon microdon {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

}}

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

|Neohyaenodon milvinus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon aimi {{small|(Cooper, 1926)}}Forster Cooper, C. (1926). [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222932608633530 "Hyænodon aimi, sp. n., and a note on the occurrence of Anthracotherium minus from the Headon Beds at Hordle."] Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)18(106):370–373

|Hyaenodon hantonensis {{small|(Lydekker, 1884)}}R. Lydekker (1884.) [https://pdf.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/2271667e518b6f5cb27b077a53a36999/s0016756800185826.pdf "Notes on some fossil Carnivora and Rodentia."] Geol. Mag., London, (3)1:442-445, 2 figs.

}}

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

|Epipterodon mongoliensis {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Megalopterodon mongoliensis {{small|(Dashzeveg, 1964)}}

|Neohyaenodon mongoliensis {{small|(Morlo & Nagel, 2006)}}Michael Morlo, Doris Nagel (2006). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248545738_New_remains_of_Hyaenodontidae_Creodonta_Mammalia_from_the_Oligocene_of_Central_Mongolia "New remains of Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Central Mongolia."] Annales de Paléontologie 92(3):305-321

|Pterodon mongoliensis {{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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|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=H. montanus:

|Protohyaenodon montanus

|Neohyaenodon montanus {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon mustilinius

|Prohyaenodon mustelinus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon mustelinus {{small|(Scott, 1894)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon neimongoliensis {{small|(Huang & Zhu, 2002)}}{{cite journal |last1=Huang |first1=Xue-Shi |last2=Zhu |first2=Bao-Cheng |title=Creodont (mammalia) remains from the Early Oligocene of Ulantatal, Nei Mongol |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |date=15 March 2002 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=17 |url=http://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/abstract/abstract856.shtml |access-date=19 November 2023 |language=en |issn=2096-9899}}

}}

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

|Microhyaenodon pumilus {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

}}

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

|Microhyaenodon raineyi {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon raineyi {{small|(Gustafson, 1986)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon heberti euzetensis {{small|(Depéret, 1917)}}

|Pterodon requieni {{small|(Gervais, 1846)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon exiguus {{small|(Stock, 1933)}}

|Microhyaenodon venturae {{small|(Lavrov, 1999)}}

|Protohyaenodon exiguus {{small|(Stock, 1933)}}

|Protohyaenodon venturae {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

}}

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

|Neohyaenodon vetus {{small|(Mellett, 1977)}}

|Pterodon californicus {{small|(Stock, 1933)}}

}}

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

|Hyaenodon yuanchüensis {{small|(Young, 1937)}}

}}

}}

| synonyms_ref = J. Alroy (2002). "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."

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Hyaenodon ("hyena-tooth") is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from extinct tribe Hyaenodontini within extinct subfamily Hyaenodontinae (in extinct family Hyaenodontidae),Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=F4jknQEACAAJ "Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level"], Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pages. {{page|year=|isbn=978-0-231-11013-6|pages=}} that lived in Eurasia, Africa, and North America from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene.