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Extinct genus of carnivores

Pogonodon
Temporal range: Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of P. platycopis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: †Nimravidae
Subfamily: †Nimravinae
Genus: †Pogonodon
Cope, 1880
Type species
†Pogonodon platycopis
(Cope, 1879)
Species
  • P. davisi Merriam, 1906
  • P. platycopis (Cope, 1879) (type)
Synonyms
  • Hoplophoneus platycopis Cope, 1879
  • Pogonodon cismontanus Thorpe, 1920
  • Pogonodon serrulidens Eaton, 1922
  • Dinictis eileenae Macdonald, 1970

Pogonodon is an extinct genus of cat-like nimravid endemic to North America during the Oligocene.

Life restoration

References

  1. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level Columbia University Press, New York 1997, 631 Seiten, ISBN 0-231-11013-8
Nimravidae
Incertae sedis
Hoplophoneus primaevus
Hoplophoneus primaevus
Nimravini
Hoplophoneini
Taxon identifiers
Pogonodon
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