Sivapterodon
Temporal range: middle Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Hyainailouroidea
Family: †Hyainailouridae
Subfamily: †Hyainailourinae
Tribe: †Hyainailourini
Genus: †Sivapterodon
Ginsburg, 1980[1]
Type species
†Sivapterodon lahirii
Pilgrim, 1932[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • S. lahirii:
    • Hyaenaelurus lahirii (Pilgrim, 1932)
    • Hyainailouros lahirii (Pilgrim, 1932)

Sivapterodon ("Shiva's Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae that lived in Pakistan during the middle Miocene.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Ginsburg, L. (1980.) "Hyainailouros sulzeri, mammifère créodonte du Miocène européen." Annales de Paléontologie, 66: 19–73.
  2. ↑ Pilgrim G. E. (1932.) "The fossil Carnivora of India." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologica Indica, 18:1-232.
  3. ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. ↑ M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
  5. ↑ Floréal Solé; Eli Amson; Matthew Borths; Dominique Vidalenc; Michael Morlo; Katharina Bastl (2015). "A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)". PLOS ONE. 10 (9): e0135698. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1035698S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135698. PMC 4580617. PMID 26398622.


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