Dissopsalis Temporal range: Miocene middle to late | |
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Comparison of various Early to Middle Miocene hyaenodonts, including the hyainailurids Hyainailouros sulzeri (top) and Megistotherium osteothlastes (center), and teratodontid Dissopsalis pyroclasticus | |
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Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | † Hyainailouroidea |
Family: | † Teratodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Teratodontinae |
Tribe: | † Dissopsalini |
Genus: | † Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910 |
Type species | |
†Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim, 1910 | |
Species | |
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Dissopsalis ('double scissors') is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct tribe Dissopsalini within family Teratodontidae. [3] [4] The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene (15.0 to 9.0 Ma), while the type species, D. carnifex, lived in Pakistan and India during the middle to late Miocene (16.1 to 8.8 Ma). [5] Dissopsalis is the last known hyaenodont genus.