Pakakali

Pakakali
Temporal range: Chattian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Family: Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: Hyainailourinae
Genus: Pakakali
Borths & Stevens, 2017
Type species
Pakakali rukwaensis
Borths & Stevens, 2017

Pakakali is an extinct genus of hyaenodont that lived in what is now Tanzania during the Late Oligocene. It is known from a single species, P. rukwaensis.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Borths, Matthew R.; Stevens, Nancy J. (11 October 2017). Smith, Thierry (ed.). "The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0185301. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1285301B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185301. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5636082. PMID 29020030.