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part of left maxilla of Tytthaena parrisi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
Subfamily: | †Tytthaeninae Gunnell & Gingerich, 1991[3] |
Genus: | †Tytthaena Gingerich, 1980[2] |
Type species | |
†Tytthaena parrisi Gingerich, 1980 | |
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Tytthaena ("little hyena") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Tytthaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America from the late Paleocene to early Eocene.[1]
Tytthaena is the smallest oxyaenid known. Morphologically, it resembles Oxyaena. It can be distinguished from other oxyaenids by its size and dentition. Its molars were narrow, with elongate talonids.[2][4]
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