Hyaenodontidae

Hyaenodontidae is a family of placental mammals in the extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea. Hyaenodontids arose during the early Eocene and persisted well into the late Miocene. Fossils of this group have been found in Asia, North America and Europe.

Hyaenodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyaenodontoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 7 of 770 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 653 of 770 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 88 of 770 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 770 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 71 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 164 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 164 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 59 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 35 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 29 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 17 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 30 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 42 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 36 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 24 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 14 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya13.82 Mya63 Mya6 Mya

770 occurrences of Hyaenodontidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

770 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

82 formations

Willwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.53°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.39°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.38°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.34°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.85°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 42.72°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.76°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.37°N, 109.82°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.16°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WErgilin Dzo — 43.75°N, 111.92°EErgilin Dzo — 43.73°N, 111.25°EErgilin Dzo — 43.40°N, 109.10°EErgilin Dzo — 43.73°N, 111.21°EErgilin Dzo — 43.37°N, 108.66°EErgilin Dzo — 44.00°N, 111.00°EErgilin Dzo — 43.33°N, 109.13°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 44.08°N, 106.87°EHsanda Gol — 44.00°N, 108.00°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.27°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WWashakie — 41.40°N, 108.13°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ETienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°EGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WLothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EPondaung — 21.77°N, 94.85°EPondaung — 21.74°N, 94.64°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.68°EPondaung — 21.70°N, 94.76°ESan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WNaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.45°ENaran Bulak — 44.62°N, 106.18°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.10°N, 1.32°E

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The named rock units Hyaenodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyaenodontidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hyaenodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,017 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 530 sites for Hyaenodontidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

171 references

Each of the 770 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 159 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Hyaenodontidae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHyaenodontoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1869