Hypsodontus is an extinct genus of Bovidae from subfamily Hypsodontinae. It was originally described from a single jaw fragment of its type species H. miocenicus Sokolov, 1949, found in the North Caucasus of Russia, Middle Miocene. Includes five species.[2][1]
| Hypsodontus Temporal range: Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hypsodontinae |
| Genus: | †Hypsodontus Sokolov, 1949 |
| Type species | |
| Hypsodontus miocenicus Sokolov, 1949[1]
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Characteristics edit
Size medium. Molars with relatively high crowns, lacking additional columns and tubercles. Second and third molars with clear outer folds on anterior margins; other margins rounded. Third molar talonid narrow.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.
- ^ Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.