Hyaenodonta

Hyaenodonta Temporal range: Late Paleocene–Late Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Tritemnodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Creodonta
Clade:	†Hyaenodonta L. Van Valen, 1967
Families
†Proviverridae †Limnocyonidae †Hyaenodontidae †Hyainailouridae

Hyaenodonta (sometimes referred as "Hyaenodontida") is an extinct group of hypercarnivorous eutherian mammals, originally classified along with the oxyaenids as part of Creodonta. Hyaenodonts may have evolved in Africa in the Paleocene.

The following classification is based on Solé et al. (2015):