Tytthaena
Extinct genus of mammals
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Tytthaena ("little hyena") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Tytthaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America from the late Paleocene to early Eocene.[1]
| Tytthaena | |
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| part of left maxilla of Tytthaena parrisi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Tytthaeninae Gunnell & Gingerich, 1991[2] |
| Genus: | †Tytthaena Gingerich, 1980[3] |
| Type species | |
| †Tytthaena parrisi Gingerich, 1980 | |
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