Isohyaenodon

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Isohyaenodon
Temporal range: 20.0–13.6  Ma
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Early to Middle Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Family: Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: Hyainailourinae
Tribe: Hyainailourini
Subtribe: Isohyaenodontina
Lavrov, 1999 [1]
Genus: Isohyaenodon
Savage, 1965
Type species
Isohyaenodon andrewsi
Savage, 1965 [2]
Species
  • I. andrewsi(Savage, 1965)
  • I. zadoki(Savage, 1965)
Synonyms
synonyms of subtribe:
  • Isohyaenodontini (Lavrov, 1999)
synonyms of species:
  • I. andrewsi:
    • Hyaenodon andrewsi(Savage, 1965)
  • I. zadoki:
    • Isohyaenodon matthewi(Savage, 1965)
    • Hyaenodon matthewi(Savage, 1965)
    • Metapterodon zadoki(Savage, 1965)
    • Pterodon zadoki(Van Valen, 1967) [3]

Isohyaenodon ("equal to Hyaenodon") is an extinct polyphyletic genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal from the subfamily Hyainailourinae). Remains are known from early to middle Miocene deposits in Kenya, East Africa.

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Description

Isohyaenodon is distinguished from Hyaenodon in having more robust molars, lower molars with a subequal paraconid and protoconid, and upper molars with a more well-developed protocone. [4]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Isohyaenodon was considered possibly the same genus as Leakitherium from the same region by Van Valen (1967), but subsequent studies have rejected this assumption. [5] [6]

Isohyaenodon pilgrimi Savage, 1965 was formerly assigned to this genus, but has been renamed Exiguodon pilgrimi . [6]

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References

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