Pogonodon
Pogonodon Temporal range: | |
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Skull of P. platycopis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | †Nimravidae |
Subfamily: | †Nimravinae |
Genus: | †Pogonodon Cope, 1880 |
Type species | |
†Pogonodon platycopis (Cope, 1879) | |
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Pogonodon is an extinct genus of cat-like nimravid endemic to North America during the Oligocene.[1]
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References
[edit]- ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level Columbia University Press, New York 1997, 631 Seiten, ISBN 0-231-11013-8