Hyaenodon brevirostrus Macdonald 1970 (creodont)

Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82

Belongs to Hyaenodon according to J. R. Macdonald 1970

Sister taxa: Hyaenodon (Isohyaenodon), Hyaenodon americanus, Hyaenodon bavaricus, Hyaenodon brachycephalus, Hyaenodon chunkhtensis, Hyaenodon crucians, Hyaenodon cruentus, Hyaenodon dubius, Hyaenodon eminus, Hyaenodon filholi, Hyaenodon gigas, Hyaenodon horridus, Hyaenodon incertus, Hyaenodon leptocephalus, Hyaenodon leptorhynchus, Hyaenodon megaloides, Hyaenodon microdon, Hyaenodon minor, Hyaenodon mongoliensis, Hyaenodon montanus, Hyaenodon mustelinus, Hyaenodon neimongoliensis, Hyaenodon pervagus, Hyaenodon raineyi, Hyaenodon venturae, Hyaenodon vetus, Hyaenodon weilini, Hyaenodon yuanchuensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sharps (LACM 2007), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sharps (LACM 2007)

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