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Sarkastodon
Description | Sarkastodon ("meaty tooth") is an extinct genus of mammal within the creodont family Oxyaenidae that lived during the early to late Eocene, 48.6 to 37.2Â million years ago. It was a large, carnivorous animal that lived in what is today China and Mongolia. Sarkastodon is known only from a skull and jawbones. Sarkastodon was probably a hypercarnivore that preyed on large mammals in its range during the Late Eocene, such as brontotheres, chalicotheres, and rhinoceroses. Its weight is estimated at 800Â kg (1,800Â lb), and its length at 3Â m (10Â ft). From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkastodon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Theroteinidae : Sarkastodon | |||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||
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Scientific Name | Sarkastodon Granger, 1938 | |||||||||
Name Published In | Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 969 | |||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkastodon |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Sarkastodon henanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Sarkastodon mongoliensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 969 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!