Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyainailouridae

Full reference: D. T. Rasmussen and M. Gutierrez. 2009. A Mammalian Fauna from the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Kenya. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 288(1-3):1-52

Parent taxon: Hyainailourinae according to M. R. Borths and N. J. Stevens 2017

See also Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009 and Solé et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Akhnatenavus, Dissopsalini, Hemipsalodon, Hyainailourini, Hyainailouros, Isohyaenodon, Kerberos, Leakitherium, Megistotherium, Metapterodon, Metapterodontini, Orienspterodon, Parapterodon, Paroxyaenini, Parvavorodon, Pterodon, Simbakubwa

Subtaxa: Mlanyama sugu

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Type: Mlanyama sugu

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Benson's Site (Miocene of Kenya)

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