Dissopsalis
| Dissopsalis Temporal range:
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| Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Dissopsalis Pilgrim, 1910 |
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| Dissopsalis carnifex | |
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Dissopsalis is a genus of extinct predatory mammals of the family Teratodontidae within the order Hyaenodonta.[1] The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene, while the type species, D. carnifex, ranged from, Pakistan, India to China during the middle to late Miocene.[2]
Dissopsalis is the last known hyaenodont genus. It lived alongside its relative Hyaenodon weilini, a member of the very successful genus Hyaenodon, during the Miocene in China, and survived to the end of the Miocene, whereas H. weilini did not.
Species[]
- Genus Dissopsalis
- Dissopsalis carnifex
- Dissopsalis pyroclasticus
References[]
- ^ Borths, M.R.; Seiffert, E.R. (April 2017). "Craniodental and humeral morphology of a new species of Masrasector (Teratodontinae, Hyaenodonta, Placentalia) from the late Eocene of Egypt and locomotor diversity in hyaenodonts". PLoS ONE. 12 (4): e0173527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173527.
- ^ 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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