Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyainailouridae
Full reference: P. A. Holroyd. 1999. New Pterodontinae (Creodonta: Hyaenodontidae) from the late Eocene-early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum province, Egypt. PaleoBios 19(2):1-18
Parent taxon: Hyainailourinae according to M. R. Borths and N. J. Stevens 2017
See also Borths et al. 2016, Morales and Pickford 2017, Solé et al. 2015 and Solé et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Dissopsalini, Hemipsalodon, Hyainailourini, Hyainailouros, Isohyaenodon, Kerberos, Leakitherium, Megistotherium, Metapterodon, Metapterodontini, Mlanyama, Orienspterodon, Parapterodon, Paroxyaenini, Parvavorodon, Pterodon, Simbakubwa
Subtaxa: Akhnatenavus leptognathus Akhnatenavus nefertiticyon
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation) (Oligocene of Egypt)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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