Mammalia - Hyaenodonta - Hyaenodontidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1880. The bad lands of the Wind River and their fauna. The American Naturalist 14(10):745-748

Parent taxon: Hyaenodontidae according to W. B. Scott 1892

See also Cope 1880, Denison 1938, Gazin 1957, Gunnell 1998, Guthrie 1971, Hay 1902, Matthew 1909, Matthew and Granger 1915, Stucky and Hardy 2007, Van Valen 1967 and Wortman 1894

Sister taxa: Acarictis, Acrohyaenodon, Ahknatenavus, Arfia, Boritia, Cartierodon, Cynohyaenodon, Eurotherium, Galecyon, Gazinocyon, Hyaenaelurinae, Hyaenodontinae, Hyaenodontipus, Indohyaenodontinae, Ischnognathus, Koholiinae, Leonhardtina, Matthodon, Neohyaenodon, Oxyaenoides, Paracynohyaenodon, Preregidens, Prionogalidae, Prodissopsalis, Prototomus, Proviverroides, Pyrocyon, Quercytherium, Schizophagus, Sinopa, Thereutherium, Tinerhodon, Tritemnodon

Subtaxa: Protopsalis tigrinus

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Davis Ranch (Eocene of Wyoming)

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