Apterodontinae Explained
Apterodontinae ("without winged tooth") is an extinct subfamily of hyainailourid hyaenodonts that lived in Africa and Europe during the late Eocene to middle Oligocene.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
- Subfamily: †Apterodontinae
- Genus: †Apterodon
- †Apterodon altidens
- †Apterodon gaudryi
- †Apterodon langebadreae
- †Apterodon macrognathus
- †Apterodon rauenbergensis
- †Apterodon saghensis
- †Apterodon sp. [Dur At-Talah escarpment, Libya]
- Genus: †Quasiapterodon
Notes and References
- Book: McKenna . Malcolm C. . Bell . Susan K. . Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level . 16 March 2015 . 1997 . Columbia University Press . New York . 978-0-231-11012-9.
- B. Lange-Badré and M. Böhme (2005.) "Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European Creodont Mammal from MP22 of Espenhain (Germany)." Annales de Paléontologie 91:311-328
- M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
- Matthew R. Borths . Patricia A. Holroyd . Erik R. Seiffert . 2016 . Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia) . PeerJ . 4 . e2639 . 10.7717/peerj.2639 . 27867761 . 5111901 . free .
- Matthew R. Borths . Nancy J. Stevens . 2017 . The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition . PLOS ONE . 12 . 10 . e0185301 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0185301 . 29020030 . 5636082 . 2017PLoSO..1285301B. free .
- Floréal Solé . Bastien Mennecart . 2019 . A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 64 . 2 . 275–290 . 10.4202/app.00581.2018 . free.
