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Taxonomy
Leakitherium was named by Savage (1965). Its type is Leakitherium hiwegi.
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Hyaenodontinae by Savage (1965), Van Valen (1967) and Morales et al. (2007); to Hyainailourinae by Solé et al. (2014); to Hyainailourini by Solé et al. (2015); to Dissopsalini by Morales and Pickford (2017); and to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Hyaenodontinae by Savage (1965), Van Valen (1967) and Morales et al. (2007); to Hyainailourinae by Solé et al. (2014); to Hyainailourini by Solé et al. (2015); to Dissopsalini by Morales and Pickford (2017); and to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017).
Species
L. hiwegi (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Leakitherium Savage p. 276 |
| 1967 | Leakitherium Van Valen |
| 1997 | Leakitherium McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Leakitherium Morales et al. p. 74 |
| 2014 | Leakitherium Solé et al. |
| 2015 | Leakitherium Solé et al. |
| 2017 | Leakitherium Borths and Stevens |
| 2017 | Leakitherium Morales and Pickford |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | Uganda | L. sp. (28441) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | L. hiwegi (21725) |