Apterodontinae

Not to be confused with Apteronotidae or Apteronotinae.

Apterodontinae Temporal range: 39.6–27.8  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Eocene to Middle Oligocene
Two views of the skull of Apterodon macrognathus
Apterodon macrognathus life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	† Hyainailouroidea
Family:	† Hyainailouridae
Subfamily:	† Apterodontinae Szalay, 1967 [1]
Type genus
† Apterodon Fischer, 1880
Genera
† Apterodon † Quasiapterodon
Synonyms
Apterodontini (Szalay, 1967)

Apterodontinae ("without winged tooth") is an extinct subfamily of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae, specialised for aquatic, otter-like habits. ^[2] They lived in Africa and Europe from the late Eocene to middle Oligocene. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Subfamily: †Apterodontinae(Szalay, 1967) Genus: † Apterodon (Fischer, 1880) †Apterodon altidens(Schlosser, 1910) †Apterodon gaudryi(Fischer, 1880) †Apterodon langebadreae(Grohé, 2012) †Apterodon macrognathus(Andrews, 1904) †Apterodon rauenbergensis(Frey, 2010) †Apterodon saghensis(Simons & Gingerich, 1976) †Apterodon sp. [Dur At-Talah escarpment, Libya] (Grohé, 2012) Genus: † Quasiapterodon (Lavrov, 1999) †Quasiapterodon minutus(Schlosser, 1910)

References

1. Szalay, F. S. (1967.) "The affinities of Apterodon (Deltatheridia, Hyaenodontdae)." American Museum Novitates 2293, 1–17.
2. Laudet, V.; Grohé, C.; Morlo, M.; Chaimanee, Y.; Blondel, C.; Coster, P.; Valentin, X.; Salem, M.; Bilal, A. A.; Jaeger, J. J.; Brunet, M. (2012). "New Apterodontinae (Hyaenodontida) from the Eocene Locality of Dur At-Talah (Libya): Systematic, Paleoecological and Phylogenetical Implications". PLOS ONE. 7 (11): e49054. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...749054G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049054 . PMC   3504055 . PMID   23185292.
3. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-11012-9 . Retrieved 16 March 2015.
4. B. Lange-Badré and M. Böhme (2005.) "Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European Creodont Mammal from MP22 of Espenhain (Germany)." Annales de Paléontologie 91:311-328
5. M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
6. Matthew R. Borths; Patricia A. Holroyd; Erik R. Seiffert (2016). "Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia)". PeerJ. 4: e2639. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2639 . PMC   5111901 . PMID   27867761.
7. Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2017). "The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0185301. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1285301B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185301 . PMC   5636082 . PMID   29020030.
8. Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (2): 275–290. doi: 10.4202/app.00581.2018 .