Iridodon Morlo and Gunnell 2003 (creodont)

Mammalia - Creodonta

Full reference: M. Morlo and G. F. Gunnell. 2003. Small Limnocyonines (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) From the Bridgerian Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Thinocyon, Prolimnocyon, And Iridodon, New Genus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 31(2):43-78

Parent taxon: Limnocyoninae according to F. Solé 2013

See also Morlo and Gunnell 2003 and Morlo and Gunnell 2005

Sister taxa: Limnocyon, Limnocyonini, Machaeroidini, Oxyaenodon, Prolaena, Prolimnocyon, Thinocyon

Subtaxa: Iridodon datzae

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Type: Iridodon datzae

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Cathedral Bluffs (UNSM) (Eocene of Wyoming)

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