Orienspterodon

Extinct genus of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orienspterodon ("eastern Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Hyainailourinae within paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae, that lived from middle to late Eocene in China and Myanmar.[5] Type species O. dahkoensis was originally assigned to genus Pterodon in 1975, but was eventually assigned to its own genus in 2007.[1]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:Hyainailouroidea
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Orienspterodon
Temporal range: 42.0–39.0 Ma
Middle to Late Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyainailouroidea
Family: Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: Hyainailourinae
Genus: Orienspterodon
Egi, 2007[1]
Type species
Orienspterodon dahkoensis
Chow, 1975[2]
Species
  • O. dahkoensis (Chow, 1975)
  • O. mianchiensis (Sheng, Bi & Li, 2024)[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Chinapterodon (Lavrov, 1999)[4]
synonyms of species:
  • O. dahkoensis:
    • Chinapterodon dahkoensis (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pterodon dahkoensis (Chow, 1975)
    • Pterodon dakoensis (Lavrov, 1999)
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