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Taxonomy
Apterodontinae was named as a subfamily. It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hyainailourinae by Morlo et al. (2007); it was reranked as the unranked clade Apterodontinae by Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by Lange-Badré and Böhme (2005), Grohé et al. (2012) and Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailouridae by Borths et al. (2016), Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hyainailourinae by Morlo et al. (2007); it was reranked as the unranked clade Apterodontinae by Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by Lange-Badré and Böhme (2005), Grohé et al. (2012) and Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailouridae by Borths et al. (2016), Borths and Stevens (2017) and Solé and Mennecart (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Apterodontinae Lange-Badré and Böhme p. 312 |
| 2012 | Apterodontinae Grohé et al. |
| 2014 | Apterodontinae Solé et al. |
| 2016 | Apterodontinae Borths et al. |
| 2017 | Apterodontinae Borths and Stevens |
| 2019 | Apterodontinae Solé and Mennecart |
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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.
Unr. †Apterodontinae
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G. †Apterodon Fischer 1880
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Apterodon altidens Schlosser 1910
†Apterodon intermedius Lange-Badré and Böhme 2005
†Apterodon langebadreae Grohé et al. 2012
†Apterodon macrognathus Andrews 1904
†Apterodon rauenbergensis Frey et al. 2010
†Apterodon saghensis Simons and Gingerich 1976
Invalid names: Dasyurodon Andreae 1887 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Rupelian or 38.00000 to 28.10000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya | Apterodon langebadreae (174667 174668 174670) Apterodon sp. (174671) Apterodon sp., Apterodon langebadreae (174669) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt (Fayum) | Apterodon saghensis (175910) Apterodon sp. (181545 181549) | |
| MP 22 | France (Midi-Pyrenées) | Apterodon sp. (167537) | |
| MP 22 | Germany | Apterodon sp. (46097) | |
| Rupelian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Carnivora indet. (68021) | |
| Rupelian | Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) | Apterodon sp. (65088) | |
| Rupelian | Egypt (Fayum) | Apterodon altidens (175909) Apterodon macrognathus (12960 65960 175420) Apterodon sp. (60127) | |
| Rupelian | Germany | Apterodon gaudryi (65077) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya | Apterodon gaudryi (166975 174672 174673) |