†subfamily Hyaenodontinae Trouessart 1885 (creodont)

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

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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

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