Dissopsalini
Dissopsalini Temporal range: Miocene Early to Late | |
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Comparison of various Early to Middle Miocene hyaenodonts, including the hyainailurids Hyainailouros sulzeri (top) and Megistotherium osteothlastes (center), and teratodontid Dissopsalis carnifex | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
Family: | †Teratodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Teratodontinae |
Tribe: | †Dissopsalini Morales & Pickford, 2017[1] |
Type genus | |
†Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910 | |
Genera | |
Dissopsalini ("double scissors") is an extinct tribe of teratodontid hyaenodonts. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Miocene deposits in Asia and Africa.[1]
Classification and phylogeny
[edit]Taxonomy
[edit]- Tribe: †Dissopsalini (Morales & Pickford, 2017)
- Genus: †Buhakia (Morlo, 2007)
- †Buhakia hyaenoides (Morales, 2003)
- †Buhakia moghraensis (Morlo, 2007)
- †Buhakia sp. I [Karungu, Kenya] (Savage, 1965)
- †Buhakia sp. II [GSN GT VI 22’17] (Morales & Pickford, 2017)
- Genus: †Dissopsalis (Pilgrim, 1910)
- †Dissopsalis carnifex (Pilgrim, 1910)
- †Dissopsalis pyroclasticus (Savage, 1965)
- Genus: †Buhakia (Morlo, 2007)
Phylogeny
[edit]The phylogenetic relationships of tribe Dissopsalini are shown in the following cladogram:[2][3][4][5][6][7]
†Teratodontidae |
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford (2017). "New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)" (PDF). Fossil Imprint. 73 (3–4): 332–359. doi:10.2478/if-2017-0019. S2CID 31350436.
- ^ Borths, Matthew R.; Stevens, Nancy J. (2017). "Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, "Creodonta," Placentalia, Mammalia)". Palaeontologia Electronica. 20 (3): 55A. doi:10.26879/776.
- ^ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (1): e1570222. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E0222B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222. S2CID 145972918.
- ^ Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). "The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian". Geodiversitas. 42 (13): 185–214. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13. S2CID 219585388.
- ^ Solé, F.; Morlo, M.; Schaal, T.; Lehmann, T. (2021). "New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene". Geobios. 66–67: 119–141. Bibcode:2021Geobi..66..119S. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.02.004. S2CID 234848856.
- ^ Flink, T.; Cote, S. (2021). "The neurocranium of Ekweeconfractus amorui gen. et sp. nov. (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) and the evolution of the brain in some hyaenodontan carnivores". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (2): e1927748. Bibcode:2021JVPal..41E7748F. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1927748. S2CID 237518007.
- ^ Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (2023). "A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819. ISSN 2296-701X.