Machaeroidinae ("dagger-like") is an extinct subfamily of carnivorous sabre-toothed placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived from the early to middle Eocene of Asia and North America.[3] Traditionally classified as hyaenodonts, this group is now classified as a member of the family Oxyaenidae.[4][5][6]
| Machaeroidinae Temporal range: early to middle Eocene
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| skull of Machaeroides eothen | |
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| lower jaw of Apataelurus kayi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machaeroidinae Matthew, 1909[1] |
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| †Machaeroides Matthew, 1909
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| A map showing the fossil finds of machaeroidinid genera. | |
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list of synonyms:
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Classification and phylogeny edit
Taxonomy edit
- Subfamily: †Machaeroidinae (Matthew, 1909)
- Genus: †Apataelurus (Scott, 1937)
- †Apataelurus kayi (Scott, 1937)
- †Apataelurus pishigouensis (Tong & Lei, 1986)
- Genus: †Diegoaelurus (Zack, Poust & Wagner, 2022)[7]
- Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae (Zack, Poust & Wagner, 2022)
- Genus: †Isphanatherium (Lavrov & Averianov, 1998)
- Isphanatherium ferganensis (Lavrov & Averianov, 1998)
- Genus: †Machaeroides (Matthew, 1909)
- †Machaeroides eothen (Matthew, 1909)
- †Machaeroides simpsoni (Dawson, 1986)
- Genus: †Apataelurus (Scott, 1937)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
- ^ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
- ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Machaeroidinae
- ^ Zack, S. (2014). "Saber-tooth origins: a new skeletal association and the affinities of Machaeroidinae (Mammalia, Creodonta)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts: 259–260.
- ^ Shawn P. Zack (2019). "A skeleton of a Uintan machaeroidine 'creodont' and the phylogeny of carnivorous eutherian mammals". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (8): 653–689. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1466374. S2CID 89934728.
- ^ Shawn P. Zack (2019). "The first North American Propterodon (Hyaenodonta: Hyaenodontidae), a new species from the late Uintan of Utah". PeerJ. 7: e8136. doi:10.7717/peerj.8136. PMC 6876642. PMID 31772846.
- ^ Zack, Shawn P.; Poust, Ashley W.; Wagner, Hugh (2022-03-15). "Diegoaelurus, a new machaeroidine (Oxyaenidae) from the Santiago Formation (late Uintan) of southern California and the relationships of Machaeroidinae, the oldest group of sabertooth mammals". PeerJ. 10: e13032. doi:10.7717/peerj.13032. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8932314. PMID 35310159.