Hyaenodonta Temporal range: Late Paleocene–Late Miocene |
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Tritemnodon | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Order: |
†Hyaenodonta L. Van Valen, 1967 |
Families | |
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):