Cynohyaenodon

Cynohyaenodon
Temporal range: 50.8–37.8 Ma Early to Middle Eocene
skull of Cynohyaenodon cayluxi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Hyaenodontoidea
Family: †Hyaenodontidae
Genus: †Cynohyaenodon
Filhol, 1873
Type species
†Cynohyaenodon cayluxi
Filhol, 1873
Species
  • †C. cayluxi (Filhol, 1873)[1]
  • †C. lautricensis (Lange-Badré, 1978)
  • †C. ruetimeyeri (Van Valen, 1965)[2]
  • †C. smithae (Solé, 2021)[3]
  • †C. trux (Van Valen, 1965)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Pseudosinopa (Depéret, 1917)[4]
synonyms of species:
  • C. cayluxi:
    • Proviverra cayluri (Gaudry, 1878)[5]
    • Proviverra cayluxi (Gaudry, 1878)
    • Stypolophus cayluxi (Cope, 1880)[6]
  • C. lautricensis:
    • Quercitherium lautricensis (Lange-Badré, 1978)
  • C. ruetimeyeri:
    • Pseudosinopa ruetimeyeri (Depéret, 1917)

Cynohyaenodon ("dog-like Hyaenodon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the early to middle Eocene in Europe.[7]

  1. ^ Filhol, H. (1873.) "Sur les Vertébrés fossiles trouvés dans les dépôts de phosphate de chaux du Quercy." bull. Soc. Pholomath. Paris (6) 10, 85-89.
  2. ^ L. Van Valen (1965.) "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)." Palaeontology 8(4):638-665
  3. ^ Solé, F.; Morlo, M.; Schaal, T.; Lehmann, T. (2021). "New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene". Geobios. 66–67: 119–141. Bibcode:2021Geobi..66..119S. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.02.004. S2CID 234848856.
  4. ^ Depéret C. (1917.) "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.
  5. ^ Gaudry A. (1878.) "Les enchainements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques." Mammiféres tertiaires. Paris
  6. ^ E. D. Cope (1880.) "On the genera of the Creodonta." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-6
  7. ^ Morlo, M. (1999). "Niche structure and evolutionin creodont (Mammalia) faunas of the European and North American Eocene". Geobios. 32 (2): 297–305. Bibcode:1999Geobi..32..297M. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(99)80043-6.