Skip to content
EntityQ906290· pop 14· linked from 107 articles

Dissopsalis

Sign in to save

Dissopsalis ('double scissors') is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct tribe Dissopsalini within family Teratodontidae. The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene (15.0 to 9.0 Ma), while the type species, D. carnifex, lived in Pakistan and India during the early to late Miocene (17 to 10.0 Ma). Dissopsalis was the last known hyaenodont genus.

Wikidata facts

Image
Dissopsalis carnifex.jpg
Show 4 more facts
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Dissopsalis
Commons category
Dissopsalis
time period
Miocene
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

1 sections
Contents
  • References

Dissopsalis ('double scissors') is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct tribe Dissopsalini within family Teratodontidae. The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene (15.0 to 9.0 Ma), while the type species, D. carnifex, lived in Pakistan and India during the early to late Miocene (17 to 10.0 Ma). Dissopsalis was the last known hyaenodont genus.

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dissopsalis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.