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Hemipsalodon

Mammalia - Creodonta

Taxonomy

Hemipsalodon was named by Cope (1885). Its type is Hemipsalodon grandis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Pterodon by Matthew (1901), Matthew (1909) and Savage (1965).

It was assigned to Oxyaenidae by Cope (1885) and Cope (1891); to Hyaenodontinae by Hay (1902) and Van Valen (1967); to Hyaenodontidae by Scott (1892), Lambe (1908), Schlaikjer (1935), Mellett (1977), Gustafson (1986), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Gunnell (1998); to Paroxyaenini by Solé et al. (2015); and to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017).

Species

H. grandis (syn. H. cooki) (type species), H. viejaensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1885	Hemipsalodon Cope p. 163
1891	Hemipsalodon Cope p. 6
1892	Hemipsalodon Scott p. 316
1902	Hemipsalodon Hay p. 759
1908	Hemipsalodon Lambe
1935	Hemipsalodon Schlaikjer
1967	Hemipsalodon Van Valen
1977	Hemipsalodon Mellett
1986	Hemipsalodon Gustafson
1997	Hemipsalodon McKenna and Bell
1998	Hemipsalodon Gunnell
2015	Hemipsalodon Solé et al.
2017	Hemipsalodon Borths and Stevens

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Ferae	()
order	Creodonta	()
order	Hyaenodonta	()
superfamily	Hyainailouroidea
—	Hyainailouridae	Solé et al. 2015
—	Hyainailourinae	(Pilgrim 1932)
genus	Hemipsalodon

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.

G. †Hemipsalodon Cope 1885

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†Hemipsalodon grandis Cope 1885

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Invalid names: Hemipsalodon cooki Schlaikjer 1935 [synonym]

†Hemipsalodon viejaensis Gustafson 1986

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: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Duchesnean or 39.70000 to 37.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	USA (Oregon)	H. grandis (16842)
Duchesnean	39.7 - 37.0	USA (Texas)	H. viejaensis (16827 16835)
Duchesnean	39.7 - 37.0	USA (New Mexico)	H. grandis (16867)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	Canada (Saskatchewan)	H. grandis (16919 101961)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Wyoming)	H. cooki (17045) H. sp. (16960)