Oxyaena

Oxyaena
Temporal range: 56.0–50.5 Ma Early Eocene
Oxyaena lupina skeletal restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Oxyaenodonta
Family: †Oxyaenidae
Subfamily: †Oxyaeninae
Genus: †Oxyaena
Cope, 1874
Type species
†Oxyaena lupina
Cope, 1874
Species
  • †O. forcipata (Cope, 1874)[1]
  • †O. gulo (Matthew & Granger, 1915)[2]
  • †O. intermedia (Denison, 1937)[3]
  • †O. lupina (Cope, 1874)
  • †O. pardalis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  • †O. simpsoni (Van Valen, 1966)[4]
  • †O. woutersi (Lange-Badré & Godinot, 1982)[5]
Synonyms[6]
synonyms of species:
  • O. forcipata:
    • Oxyaena ultima (Denison, 1938)
  • O. lupina:
    • Oxyaena huerfanensis (Osborn, 1897)
    • Oxyaena morsitans (Cope, 1874)
  • O. woutersi:
    • Arfia woutersi (Lange-Badré & Godinot, 1982)

Oxyaena ("sharp hyena")[7] is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Europe, Asia and North America (with most specimens being found in Colorado) during the early Eocene.[8][9]

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  2. ^ W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. (1915.) "A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(1):1-103
  3. ^ R. H. Denison. (1937.) "The broad-skulled Pseudocreodi." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 37:163-257
  4. ^ L. Van Valen. (1966.) "Deltatheridia, a new order of Mammals." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 132(1):1-126
  5. ^ Lange-Badré, B. and Godinot, M. (1982). "Sur la présence du genre Arfia Van Valen (Creodonta, Mammalia) dans la faune de Dormaal (Éocène inférieur de Belgique)." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série 2, 294: 471-476
  6. ^ J. Alroy. (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
  7. ^ "Glossary. American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.
  8. ^ Gingerich, Philip D. (1980). "Tytthaena parrisi, Oldest Known Oxyaenid (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the Late Paleocene of Western North America". Journal of Paleontology. 54 (3): 570–576. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1304200.
  9. ^ Benes, Josef (1979.) "Prehistoric Animals and Plants." Pg. 203. Prague: Artia