Metapterodon

Metapterodon
Temporal range: Early to Late Miocene 20–9.8 Ma
part of a lower jaw of
Metapterodon brachycephalus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Hyainailouroidea
Family: †Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: †Hyainailourinae
Tribe: †Metapterodontini
Morales & Pickford, 2017
Genus: †Metapterodon
Stromer, 1926
Type species
†Metapterodon kaiseri
Stromer, 1926
Species
  • †M. anari Mahmood, 2026
  • †M. brachycephalus (Osborn, 1909)
  • †M. kaiseri (Stromer, 1926)
  • †M. stromeri (Morales, 1998)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Afropterodon (Lavrov, 1999)
synonyms of species:
  • M. brachycephalus:
    • Afropterodon brachycephalus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Isohyaenodon brachycephalus (Savage, 1965)
    • Hyaenodon brachycephalus (Osborn, 1909)
    • Protohyaenodon brachychephalus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Protohyaenodon brachycephalus (Lavrov, 1999)
    • Pterodon brachycephalus (Van Valen, 1967)

Metapterodon ("next to Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodonts of the subfamily Hyainailourinae, that lived in Africa during the Early to Late Miocene. Including supplementary materials Fossils of Metapterodon were recovered from Egypt, Uganda, Elisabeth Bay Formation in Namibia, Nagri Formation in Pakistan, and Rusinga Island and Karungu in Kenya.

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

The Early Miocene species Metapterodon schlosseri and Metapterodon markgrafi have been reassigned to Falcatodon and Sectisodon respectively.

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. ↑ Mahmood, K.; Abbad, S. G.; Jasinski, S. E.; Babar, M. A.; Khan, M. A. (2026). "Hyaenodonta from the Middle to Late Miocene deposits of the Siwaliks of Pakistan with a brief account of Indian subcontinent hyaenodonts". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-025-00766-5.
  3. ↑ H. F. Osborn (1909.) "New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:415-424
  4. ↑ Stromer, E. (1926.) "Reste land und süsswasser bewohnender Wirbeltiere aus dem Diamentenfelden Deutsch Südwestafrikas." In: Kaiser, E. (ed.), "Die Diamantenwüste Südwestafrikas, vol. 2." Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, pp. 107–153.
  5. ↑ J. Morales, M. Pickford and D. Soria (1998.) "A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia)." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 327(9):633-638.
  6. ↑ A. V. Lavrov (1999.) "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia." in 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, p. 138 [in Russian].
  7. ↑ R. J. G. Savage (1965.) "Fossil Mammals of Africa: The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa." Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316
  8. ↑ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
  9. ↑ Mahmood, K.; Abbad, S. G.; Jasinski, S. E.; Babar, M. A.; Khan, M. A. (2026). "Hyaenodonta from the Middle to Late Miocene deposits of the Siwaliks of Pakistan with a brief account of Indian subcontinent hyaenodonts". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-025-00766-5.
  10. ↑ Borths, Matthew R.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Seiffert, Erik R. (2016). "Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia)". PeerJ. 4 e2639. doi:10.7717/peerj.2639. PMC 5111901. PMID 27867761.
  11. ↑ Metapterodon at Fossilworks.org