Machaeroidinae

Machaeroidinae
Temporal range: 52.4–39.7 Ma early to middle Eocene
skull cast of Machaeroides eothen
lower jaw of Apataelurus kayi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Order: Oxyaenodonta
Family: Oxyaenidae
Subfamily: Machaeroidinae
Matthew, 1909[1]
Type genus
Machaeroides
Matthew, 1909
Genera
A map showing the fossil finds of machaeroidinid genera.
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Machaeroididae
  • Machaeroidini (Van Valen, 1966)[2]
  • Machairoidinae (Matthew, 1909)

Machaeroidinae ("dagger-like") is an extinct subfamily of carnivorous sabre-toothed placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived from the early to middle Eocene of Asia and North America.[3] Traditionally classified as hyaenodonts, this group is now classified as a member of the family Oxyaenidae.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
  2. ^ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
  3. ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Machaeroidinae
  4. ^ Zack, S. (2014). "Saber-tooth origins: a new skeletal association and the affinities of Machaeroidinae (Mammalia, Creodonta)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts: 259–260.
  5. ^ Shawn P. Zack (2019). "A skeleton of a Uintan machaeroidine 'creodont' and the phylogeny of carnivorous eutherian mammals". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (8): 653–689. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1466374. S2CID 89934728.
  6. ^ Shawn P. Zack (2019). "The first North American Propterodon (Hyaenodonta: Hyaenodontidae), a new species from the late Uintan of Utah". PeerJ. 7: e8136. doi:10.7717/peerj.8136. PMC 6876642. PMID 31772846.