Dissopsalis
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| Dissopsalis | |
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| File:Megistotherium osteothlastes.JPG | |
| Comparison of various Early to Middle Miocene hyaenodonts, including the hyainailurids Hyainailouros sulzeri (top) and Megistotherium osteothlastes (center), and teratodontid Dissopsalis pyroclasticus | |
| File:Dissopsalis carnifex.jpg | |
| Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Teratodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Teratodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Dissopsalini |
| Genus: | †Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910 |
| Type species | |
| †Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim, 1910
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| Species | |
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Dissopsalis ('double scissors') is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct tribe Dissopsalini within family Teratodontidae.[3][4] The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene (15.0 to 9.0 Ma), while the type species, D. carnifex, lived in Pakistan and India during the early to late Miocene (17 to 10.0 Ma).[5][6] Dissopsalis was the last known hyaenodont genus.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pilgrim, G. E. (1910.) "Preliminary note on a revised classification of the Tertiary freshwater deposits in India." Records Geological Survey of India, 40, 185-205.
- ^ R. J. G. Savage (1965.) "Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa." Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316
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- ^ Barry, J. C. (1988.) "Dissopsalis, a middle and late Miocene proviverrine creodont (Mammalia) from Pakistan and Kenya." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 48(1): 25–45
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