Minimovellentodon

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Minimovellentodon
Temporal range: 55.2–50.8  Ma
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Early Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyaenodontoidea
Clade: Proviverrinae
Genus: Minimovellentodon
Solé et al., 2014 [1]
Type species
Minimovellentodon russelli
Solé et al., 2014 [1]

Minimovellentodon ("small scraping tooth") is an extinct genus of proviverrine hyaenodonts that lived in France during the early Eocene. It is a monotypic genus that contains the species M. russelli. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi:10.1111/zoj.12155.