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Sectisodon
Temporal range: 33.9–15.97 Ma
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Early Oligocene to Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:
†Hyainailouroidea
Family:
†Hyainailouridae
Subfamily:
†Hyainailourinae
Tribe:
†Hyainailourini
Genus:
†Sectisodon Morales & Pickford, 2017
Type species
†Sectisodon occultus
Morales & Pickford, 2017
Species
†S. markgrafi(Holroyd, 1999)[1]
†S. occultus(Morales & Pickford, 2017)[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
S. markgrafi:
Metapterodon markgrafi(Holroyd, 1999)
Sectisodon ("cutting tooth") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae from early Oligocene to early Miocene deposits in Egypt and Uganda.
^P. A. Holroyd (1999.) "New Pterodontinae (Creodonta: Hyaenodontidae) from the late Eocene-early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum province, Egypt." PaleoBios 19(2):1-18
^Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford (2017). "New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)" (PDF). Fossil Imprint. 73 (3–4): 332–359. doi:10.2478/if-2017-0019. S2CID 31350436.
Sectisodon ("cutting tooth") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae from early Oligocene to early Miocene...
including hyainailourids Megistotherium, Simbakubwa, Hyainailouros, Sectisodon, Exiguodon, Sivapterodon, Metapterodon, and Isohyaenodon, the prionogalid...
differed from this genus. It may instead be related to "Sinope" ethiopica. Sectisodon S. markgrafi A left maxilla. S. markgrafi was initially named by Holroyd...