Machaeroides
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Machairodus.
Machaeroides ("dagger-like") is an extinct genus of sabre-toothed predatory placental mammals from extinct subfamily Machaeroidinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America (Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene.
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Machaeroides eothen skull at the American Museum of Natural History | |
Machaeroides eothen restoration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
Subfamily: | †Machaeroidinae |
Genus: | †Machaeroides Matthew, 1909 |
Type species | |
†Machaeroides eothen Matthew, 1909 | |
Species | |
A map showing the fossil finds of Machaeroides as well as other machaeroidinid genera. |
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