Pakakali
| Pakakali Temporal range: Late Oligocene | |
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| Pakakali rukwaensis lower jaw fragment | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyainailourinae |
| Genus: | †Pakakali Borths & Stevens, 2017 |
| Type species | |
| †Pakakali rukwaensis Borths & Stevens, 2017 | |
Pakakali ("fierce cat") is an extinct genus of hyainailouroid hyaenodont classified as either a teratodontine[1] or hyainailourine[2][3] that lived in what is now Tanzania during the Late Oligocene. It is known from a single species, P. rukwaensis.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Borths, Matthew R.; Stevens, Nancy J. (11 October 2017). Smith, Thierry (ed.). "The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition". PLOS ONE. 12 (10) e0185301. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1285301B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185301. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5636082. PMID 29020030.
- ↑ Solé, F.; Morlo, M.; Schaal, T.; Lehmann, T. (2021). "New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene". Geobios. 66–67: 119–141. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.02.004.
- ↑ Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (2023). "A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. Bibcode:2023FrEEv..1176819A. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819. ISSN 2296-701X.