Hyaenodontinae

Hyaenodontinae is an extinct subfamily of predatory placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from Early Eocene to Late Miocene deposits in Eurasia and North America.

Hyaenodontinae

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 199 occurrencesEocene — about 104 of 199 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 81 of 199 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 199 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 16 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 32 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 31 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 26 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 17 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya56.9 Mya10.7 Mya

199 occurrences of Hyaenodontinae 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

199 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

45 formations

Brule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°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°EChadron — 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°WHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 44.08°N, 106.87°EHsanda Gol — 44.00°N, 108.00°EHsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ECypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WLothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°EIrdin Manha — 43.33°N, 111.76°EIrdin Manha — 43.65°N, 111.98°EUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°EUlan Gocho — 42.63°N, 111.35°ESespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WDuchesne River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WDuchesne River — 40.10°N, 110.20°WCapote Mountain Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WXianshuihe — 36.06°N, 103.79°EXianshuihe — 36.20°N, 103.44°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EKeziletuogayi — 47.85°N, 86.68°EHouldjin — 42.00°N, 112.00°EBaca — 33.50°N, 108.80°W

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The named rock units Hyaenodontinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyaenodontinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hyaenodontinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,662 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Hyaenodontinae, and this reads all 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

92 references

Each of the 199 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. 80 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 content1

Picture of Hyaenodontinae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trouessart 1885