Oxyaeninae late | |
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Patriofelis ferox skeleton | |
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Reconstruction of Sarkastodon mongoliensis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Order: | † Oxyaenodonta |
Family: | † Oxyaenidae |
Subfamily: | † Oxyaeninae Trouessart, 1885 |
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† Oxyaena Cope, 1874 | |
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Oxyaeninae ("sharp hyenas") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Asia, North America and Europe from the late Paleocene to middle Eocene. [1] [2]
The name of the subfamily translates as "sharp hyaenas" (from Ancient Greek ὀξύς- (oxús-) 'sharp', name of hyena genus Hyaena and taxonomic suffix "-inae"). [3]