Oodectes

Oodectes; Temporal range: 53.0–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to middle Eocene
	part of lower jaw of; Oodectes herpestoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Oodectes; Wortman, 1901
Type species
	†Oodectes herpestoides; Wortman, 1901
Species
	†O. herpestoides (Wortman, 1901); †O. jepseni (Guthrie, 1967); †O. proximus (Matthew, 1909); †O. pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899);
Synonyms
	synonyms of genus: Oödectes (Wortman, 1901)[misspelling] ; Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967) ; synonyms of species: O. herpestoides: Paeneprolimnocyon amissadomus (Guthrie, 1967) ; Triacodon nanus (Marsh, 1872) ; ; O. jepseni: Miacis jepseni (Guthrie, 1967) ; Paeneprolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967) ; Prolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967) ; ; O. pugnax: Uintacyon pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899) ; ;

Oodectes ("egg biter") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.^[9]^[10]

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Oodectes Temporal range: 53.0–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to middle Eocene

part of lower jaw of Oodectes herpestoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Oodectes Wortman, 1901
Type species
†Oodectes herpestoides Wortman, 1901
Species
†O. herpestoides (Wortman, 1901)^[1] †O. jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)^[2] †O. proximus (Matthew, 1909)^[3] †O. pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)^[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Oödectes (Wortman, 1901)[misspelling] Paeneprolimnocyon (Guthrie, 1967)^[5]^[6] synonyms of species: O. herpestoides: Paeneprolimnocyon amissadomus (Guthrie, 1967) Triacodon nanus (Marsh, 1872)^[7] O. jepseni: Miacis jepseni (Guthrie, 1967)^[8] Paeneprolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967) Prolimnocyon iudei (Guthrie, 1967) O. pugnax: Uintacyon pugnax (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)