Orienspterodon

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Orienspterodon
Temporal range: 42.0–39.0  Ma
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Middle to Late Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyainailouroidea
Family: Hyainailouridae
Genus: Orienspterodon
Egi, 2007 [1]
Type species
Orienspterodon dahkoensis
Chow, 1975 [2]
Species
  • O. dahkoensis(Chow, 1975)
  • O. mianchiensis(Sheng, Bi & Li, 2024) [3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Chinapterodon(Lavrov, 1999) [4]
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 [5] 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]

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