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Teratodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4834299	https://www.gbif.org/species/4834299
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40946	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40946

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodontidae : Teratodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodonta : Teratodon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Hyaenodonta
superfamily	Hyainailouroidea	Borths et al. 2016
-	Teratodontinae
genus	Teratodon	Savage 1965

Scientific Name

Teratodon Savage, 1965

Name Published In

Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 10

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Teratodontidae	stated without evidence	Savage, 1965
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontidae	stated without evidence	Morlo et al., 2007
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Teratodontidae	stated without evidence	Morales et al., 2007
Teratodon	genus	belongs to Teratodontinae	stated with evidence	Solé et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. J. G. Savage. 1965. Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Teratodon enigmae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Teratodon spekei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1965	Teratodon Savage p. 247 figs. Plate I, figs 2, 3, text figs. 3-11
1967	Teratodon Van Valen
1997	Teratodon McKenna and Bell
2007	Teratodon Morales et al. p. 74
2007	Teratodon Morlo et al. p. 149
2014	Teratodon Solé et al.
2017	Teratodon Borths and Stevens

References

Savage R. J. G. (1965) Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10 8, 241-316

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Morales J., Pickford M., et al (2007) New carnivoran material (Creodonta, Carnivora and Incertae sedis) from the Early Miocene of Napak, Uganda, Paleontological Research 11 1, 71-84 doi:10.2517/1342-8144(2007)11[71:NCMCCA]2.0.CO;2

Morlo M., Miller E. R., et al (2007) Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 1, 145-159

Solé F., Lhuillier J., et al (2014) The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 3, 303-322

Borths M. R., Stevens N. J. (2017) The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition, PLoS ONE 12 10, e0185301:1-30

Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 10 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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!

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