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Taxonomy
Megistotherium was named by Savage (1973). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Morales et al. (2008); to Hyainailourinae by Morlo et al. (2007) and Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Morales et al. (2008); to Hyainailourinae by Morlo et al. (2007) and Solé et al. (2014); and to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Megistotherium Savage |
| 1997 | Megistotherium McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Megistotherium Morlo et al. p. 146 |
| 2008 | Megistotherium Morales et al. |
| 2014 | Megistotherium Solé et al. |
| 2017 | Megistotherium Borths and Stevens |
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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, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the MN 4 to the top of the Serravallian or 16.90000 to 11.62000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Libya | M. osteothlastes (13065) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | M. osteothlastes (53970) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | M. osteothlastes (21340) |