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Taxonomy
Pterodon was named by Blainville (1839). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Oxyaenidae by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Hyaenodontinae by Savage (1965) and Van Valen (1967); to Pterodontinae by Polly (1996); to Hyaenodontidae by Blainville (1839), Andrews (1906), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Pickford et al. (2008); to Hyainailourinae by Peigné et al. (2007) and Solé et al. (2014); to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017); and to Hyainailourini by Solé et al. (2015) and Morales and Pickford (2017).
It was assigned to Oxyaenidae by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Hyaenodontinae by Savage (1965) and Van Valen (1967); to Pterodontinae by Polly (1996); to Hyaenodontidae by Blainville (1839), Andrews (1906), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Pickford et al. (2008); to Hyainailourinae by Peigné et al. (2007) and Solé et al. (2014); to Hyainailourinae by Borths and Stevens (2017); and to Hyainailourini by Solé et al. (2015) and Morales and Pickford (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1839 | Pterodon Blainville |
| 1880 | Pterodon Cope |
| 1906 | Pterodon Andrews p. 219 |
| 1965 | Pterodon Savage p. 272 |
| 1967 | Pterodon Van Valen |
| 1996 | Pterodon Polly |
| 1997 | Pterodon McKenna and Bell |
| 2007 | Pterodon Peigné et al. p. 443 |
| 2008 | Pterodon Pickford et al. p. 471 |
| 2014 | Pterodon Solé et al. |
| 2015 | Pterodon Solé et al. |
| 2017 | Pterodon Borths and Stevens |
| 2017 | Pterodon Morales and Pickford p. 344 |
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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.
G. †Pterodon Blainville 1839
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†Pterodon africanus Andrews 1903
†Pterodon dasyuroides Blainville 1839
†Pterodon hyaenoides Matthew and Granger 1925
†Pterodon leptognathus Osborn 1909
†Pterodon magnus Rütimeyer 1891
†Pterodon nyanzae Savage 1965
†Pterodon phiomensis Osborn 1909
†Pterodon syrtos Holroyd 1999
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Serravallian or 47.80000 to 11.62000 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lutetian | Namibia (Sperrgebiet) | P. sp. (149173) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | P. hyaenoides (174962) | |
| Bartonian | France (Rhone-Alpes Region) | P. sp. (31741) | |
| Priabonian | France (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region) | P. dasyuroides (31747) | |
| Priabonian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon Region) | P. sp. (31760) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | P. dasyuroides (41652) | |
| Rupelian | United Kingdom (England) | P. dasyuroides (184763) | |
| Rupelian | Egypt (Fayum) | P. africanus (65960) P. africanus, P. leptognathus, P. phiomensis (175420) P. sp. (12968) P. syrtos (12960) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | P. africanus, P. nyanzae (21725) | |
| Middle Miocene | Kenya | P. nyanzae (21724) | |
| Serravallian | Pakistan (Sind) | P. sp. (71449) |