Sivapterodon

Sivapterodon
Temporal range: 13.7–11.3 Ma middle Miocene
partial right mandible of Sivapterodon lahirii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Hyainailouroidea
Family: †Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: †Hyainailourinae
Tribe: †Hyainailourini
Genus: †Sivapterodon
Ginsburg, 1980
Type species
†Sivapterodon lahirii
Pilgrim, 1932
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • S. lahirii:
    • Hyaenaelurus lahirii (Pilgrim, 1932)
    • Hyainailouros lahirii (Pilgrim, 1932)

Sivapterodon ("Shiva's Pterodon") is an extinct genus of large sized hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae that lived in Pakistan during the middle Miocene. The type species is Sivapterodon lahirii. The m1 length of the holotype is 4.97 cm while the p4 dimension is 3.58 x 2.47 cm², which makes it one of the largest hyaenodont.

References

  1. ↑ Ginsburg, L. (1980.) "Hyainailouros sulzeri, mammifère créodonte du Miocène européen." Annales de Paléontologie, 66: 19–73.
  2. ↑ Pilgrim G. E. (1932.) "The fossil Carnivora of India." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologica Indica, 18:1-232.
  3. ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. ↑ M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
  5. ↑ Floréal Solé; Eli Amson; Matthew Borths; Dominique Vidalenc; Michael Morlo; Katharina Bastl (2015). "A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)". PLOS ONE. 10 (9) e0135698. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1035698S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135698. PMC 4580617. PMID 26398622.
  6. ↑ 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.