Pogonodon

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Pogonodon
Temporal range: Oligocene
Pogonodon platycopis.jpg
Skull of P. platycopis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Nimravidae
Subfamily: Nimravinae
Genus: Pogonodon
Cope, 1880
Type species
Pogonodon platycopis
(Cope, 1879)
Species
  • P. davisi Merriam, 1906
  • P. platycopis (Cope, 1879) (type)
Synonyms
  • Hoplophoneus platycopis Cope, 1879
  • Pogonodon cismontanus Thorpe, 1920
  • Pogonodon serrulidens Eaton, 1922
  • Dinictis eileenae Macdonald, 1970

Pogonodon is an extinct genus of cat-like nimravid endemic to North America during the Oligocene. [1]

Life restoration Pogonodon NT.jpg
Life restoration

References

  1. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level Columbia University Press, New York 1997, 631 Seiten, ISBN   0-231-11013-8