Hapalodectes
| Hapalodectes Temporal range:
Middle Eocene[1] | |
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Life restoration of Hapalodectes serus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Mesonychia |
| Family: | †Hapalodectidae |
| Genus: | †Hapalodectes Matthew , 1909
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Hapalodectes (literal translation 'soft biter'; from
Early Eocene, some 55 million years ago. Although the first fossils were found in the Eocene strata of Wyoming, the genus originated in Mongolia, as the oldest species is H. dux, which was found in Late Paleocene strata in the Naran Bulak Formation.[2]
The genus was once suggested to be related to the
anthracotheres.[citation needed
]
Species
- Genus Hapalodectes
- H. anthracinus Zhou et Gingerich, 1991
- H. dux Lopatin, 1999
- H. hetangensis Ting et Li, 1987
- H. huanghaiensis Tong et Wang, 2006
- H. leptognathus Osborn et Wortman, 1892
- H. lopatini Solé et al., 2017
- H. paleocenus Beard et al., 2010
- H. serus Matthew et Granger, 1925
References
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- ^ Lopatin, A. V. (2001). "The Earliest Hapalodectes (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from the Paleocene of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 35 (4): 426–432. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
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| Triisodontidae |  | |
| Mesonychidae | ||
| Hapalodectidae | ||