Oxyaenidae
Sign in to saveOxyaenidae ("sharp hyenas") is a family of extinct carnivorous placental mammals. Traditionally classified in order Creodonta, this group is now classified in its own order Oxyaenodonta ("sharp tooth hyenas") within clade Pan-Carnivora in mirorder Ferae. The group contains four subfamilies comprising fourteen genera. Oxyaenids first appeared during the late Paleocene in North America, with smaller radiations of oxyaenids in Eurasia occurring during the Eocene.
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12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Characteristics
- Evolution
- Classification and phylogeny
- Taxonomy
- Phylogeny
- Temporal distribution
- Within clade Pan-Carnivora
- Within family Oxyaenidae
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Oxyaenidae ("sharp hyenas") is a family of extinct carnivorous placental mammals. Traditionally classified in order Creodonta, this group is now classified in its own order Oxyaenodonta ("sharp tooth hyenas") within clade Pan-Carnivora in mirorder Ferae. The group contains four subfamilies comprising fourteen genera. Oxyaenids first appeared during the late Paleocene in North America, with smaller radiations of oxyaenids in Eurasia occurring during the Eocene.
==Etymology== The name of order Oxyaenodonta comes , name of hyena genus Hyaena and .