Orienspterodon

Orienspterodon
Temporal range: 42.0–39.0 Ma
Middle to Late Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyainailouroidea
Family: Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: Hyainailourinae
Genus: Orienspterodon
Egi, 2007[1]
Type species
Orienspterodon dahkoensis
Chow, 1975[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Chinapterodon (Lavrov, 1999)[3]
synonyms of species:
  • O. dahkoensis:
    • Chinapterodon dahkoensis (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pterodon dahkoensis (Chow, 1975)
    • Pterodon dakoensis (Lavrov, 1999)

Orienspterodon ("eastern Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts from paraphyletic subfamily Hyainailourinae that lived in China and Myanmar[4] during the middle to late Eocene. Orienspterodon dahkoensis was originally assigned to genus Pterodon in 1975, but was eventually assigned to its own genus in 2007.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Egi, N.; Tsubamato, T.; Takai, M. (2007). "Systematic Status of Asian "Pterodon" and Early Evolution of Hyaenaelurine Hyaenodontid Creodonts". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (4): 770–778. doi:10.1666/pleo0022-3360(2007)081[0770:SSOAPA]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4498825. S2CID 131018072.
  2. ^ Chow, M.-C. (1975). "Some Carnivores from the Eocene of China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 13 (3): 165–168.
  3. ^ A. V. Lavrov (1999.) "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia." in 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, p. 138 [in Russian].
  4. ^ Louis de Bonis; Floreal Solé; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Aung Naing Soe; Chit Sein; Vincent Lazzari; Olivier Chavasseau; Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2018). "New Hyaenodonta (Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of Myanmar". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 17 (6): 357–365. Bibcode:2018CRPal..17..357D. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.12.003.