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Hypsodontus

Temporal range: Miocene

Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Hypsodontinae
Genus: Hypsodontus
Sokolov, 1949
Type species
Hypsodontus miocenicus

Sokolov, 1949[1]

Hypsodontus is an extinct genus of Bovidae from subfamily Hypsodontinae. It was originally described from a single jaw fragment of its type species H. miocenicus Sokolov, 1949, found in the North Caucasus of Russia, Middle Miocene. Includes five species.[2][1]

Characteristics[edit]

Size medium. Molars with relatively high crowns, lacking additional columns and tubercles. Second and third molars with clear outer folds on anterior margins; other margins rounded. Third molar talonid narrow.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.
  • ^ Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypsodontus&oldid=1187867002"

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