Tritemnodon
Tritemnodon ("three cutting teeth") was an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene.[6][7] Fossils of Tritemnodon agilis have been found in Utah and Wyoming (Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County). It was the size of a wolf.
Tritemnodon Temporal range: Early Eocene | |
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Restoration of Tritemnodon agilis | |
Tritemnodon agilis skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Genus: | †Tritemnodon Matthew, 1906[1] |
Type species | |
†Tritemnodon agilis Marsh, 1872[2] | |
Synonyms | |
Phylogeny
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Tritemnodon are shown in the following cladogram.[8][9][10][11][12]
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References
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- O. C. Marsh (1872.) "Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224
- Matthew, W. D. (1901.) "Additional observations on the Creodonta." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 14: 1-38
- E. D. Cope (1872.) "Third account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene of Wyoming Valley." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-4
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- Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (2023). "A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819. ISSN 2296-701X.