Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Parent taxon: Hyaenodontidae according to S. P. Zack 2019
See also Borths et al. 2016, Cray 1973, Hay 1902, Morales et al. 1998, Morales et al. 2007, Polly 1996, Savage 1965, Solé and Mennecart 2019 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Acarictis, Acrohyaenodon, Ahknatenavus, Arfia, Boritia, Cartierodon, Cynohyaenodon, Eurotherium, Galecyon, Gazinocyon, Hyaenaelurinae, Hyaenodontipus, Indohyaenodontinae, Ischnognathus, Koholiinae, Leonhardtina, Matthodon, Neohyaenodon, Oxyaenoides, Paracynohyaenodon, Preregidens, Prionogalidae, Prodissopsalis, Protopsalis, Prototomus, Proviverroides, Pyrocyon, Quercytherium, Schizophagus, Sinopa, Thereutherium, Tinerhodon, Tritemnodon
Subtaxa: Hyaenodon Isphanatherium Megalopterodon Neoparapterodon Propterodon
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (1 collection), Kenya (7)
• Arikareean of United States (2: California, Nebraska)
• Oligocene of China (6), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (14), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Mongolia (7), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (27: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of China (1), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Eocene of Canada (3: Saskatchewan), China (12), France (9), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (10), Myanmar (1), Namibia (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (32: California, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 147 collections including 195 occurrences