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Taxonomy
Oxyaenodon was named by Matthew (1899). It is not extant. Its type is Oxyaenodon dysodus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Limnocyon by Wortman (1902).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontinae by Hay (1902); to Oxyaenidae by Peterson (1919); to Limnocyonini by Van Valen (1967); to Limnocyonidae by Matthew (1899), Matthew (1909) and Gunnell (1998); and to Limnocyoninae by Morlo and Gunnell (2005) and Solé (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Limnocyon by Wortman (1902).
It was assigned to Hyaenodontinae by Hay (1902); to Oxyaenidae by Peterson (1919); to Limnocyonini by Van Valen (1967); to Limnocyonidae by Matthew (1899), Matthew (1909) and Gunnell (1998); and to Limnocyoninae by Morlo and Gunnell (2005) and Solé (2013).
Species
O. dysodus (syn. O. dysclerus) (type species), O. wortmani
Synonymy list
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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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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Morlo and Gunnell 2005, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||