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Megistotherium osteothlastes

Mammalia - Creodonta

Taxonomy
Megistotherium osteothlastes was named by Savage (1973). Its type specimen is BMNH M26173, a skull, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Gebel Zelten site 6412, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in the Maradah Formation of Libya.

It was recombined as Hyainailouros osteothlastes by Morales and Pickford (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Megistotherium osteothlastes Savage
2007Megistotherium osteothlastes Morlo et al. p. 146
2017Hyainailouros osteothlastes Morales and Pickford p. 344

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
orderCreodonta()
orderHyaenodonta()
superfamilyHyainailouroidea
—HyainailouridaeSolé et al. 2015
—Hyainailourinae(Pilgrim 1932)
genusMegistotheriumSavage 1973
speciesosteothlastesSavage 1973

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Diet: insectivoresubc
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-09-06 20:43:42
Modified: 2005-09-06 22:44:32
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: base of the MN 4 to the top of the Serravallian or 16.90000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Libya Megistotherium osteothlastes (type locality: 13065)
MN 416.9 - 15.98Egypt Megistotherium osteothlastes (53970)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.63Kenya (Central Nyanza) Megistotherium osteothlastes (21340)