Hyainailourine

Hyainailourinae

Hyainailourinae

Extinct subfamily of mammals


Hyainailourinae ("hyena-cats") is an extinct subfamily of hyainailourid hyaenodonts that lived in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe from the middle Eocene to middle Miocene.[5][6][7][8] They appeared in Africa about 47.8 Ma ago and soon after spread as far as East Asia.[9]

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Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Subfamily: †Hyainailourinae (Pilgrim, 1932)
    • Genus: †Megistotherium (Savage, 1973)
    • Genus: †Mlanyama (Rasmussen & Gutierrez, 2009)
    • Genus: †Pakakali (Borths & Stevens, 2017)
    • Genus: †Simbakubwa (Borths & Stevens, 2019)
    • Genus: †Akhnatenavus (Holroyd, 1999)
    • Genus: †Hemipsalodon (Cope, 1885)
    • Genus: †Ischnognathus (Stovall, 1948)
    • Tribe: †Hyainailourini (Ginsburg, 1980)
    • Tribe: †Leakitheriini (Lavrov, 1999)[10]
      • Genus: †Leakitherium (Savage, 1965)
    • Tribe: †Metapterodontini (Morales & Pickford, 2017)
    • Tribe: †Paroxyaenini (Lavrov, 2007)
      • Genus: †Paroxyaena (Martin, 1906)

Phylogeny

Cladogram of Hyainailourinae from Morales and Pickford, 2017:[11]

Hyainailourinae

Mlanyama sugu

Dissopsalini

Buhakia spp.

Dissopsalis carnifex

Leakitherium hiwegi

Hyainailourini

Pterodon africanus

Hyainailouros spp.

Sectisodon markgrafti

Sectisodon occultus

Exiguodon pilgrimi

Falcatodon schlosseri

Isohyaenodon zadoki

Metapterodontini

Metapterodon spp.


References

  1. Pilgrim G. E. (1932). "The fossil Carnivora of India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India". Palaeontologica Indica. 18 (1–232). doi:10.1017/S0016756800096448. Archived from the original on April 13, 2023.
  2. S. Peigné, M. Morlo, Y. Chaimanee, S. Ducrocq, S. T. Tun and J. J. Jaeger (2007). "New discoveries of hyaenodontids (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Pondaung Formation, middle Eocene, Myanmar—paleobiogeographic implications". Geodiversitas. 29: 441–458.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Ginsburg, L. (1980). "Hyainailouros sulzeri, mammifère créodonte du Miocène européen". Annales de Paléontologie. 66: 19–73.
  4. P. D. Poll (1996). "The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et. comb nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia)" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (2): 303–31. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 25, 2023.
  5. Solé, F.; Lhuillier, J.; Adaci, M.; Bensalah, M.; Mahboubi, M.; Tabuce, R. (2013). "The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (3): 303–322. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.795196. S2CID 84475034.
  6. 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.
  7. Lavrov, A. V. (1999). "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia" (PDF). 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, P. (in Russian): 138.

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