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Oxyaenoidae (disused)

Mammalia - Creodonta

Taxonomy
Oxyaenoidea was named by Cope (1877). It is not extant. Its type is Oxyaena.

It was corrected as Oxyaenoidae by Hay (1930).

It was assigned to Creodonta by Hay (1930) and Savage (1965); and to Hyaenodonta by Van Valen (1967).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Oxyaenoidea Cope
1930Oxyaenoidae Hay p. 470
1965Oxyaenoidea Savage p. 246
1967Oxyaenoidea Van Valen

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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
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
orderCreodonta()
superfamilyOxyaenoidae(Cope 1877)
superfamilyOxyaenoidae(Cope 1877)

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.

Superfm. †Oxyaenoidae Cope 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available