Tritemnodon

Tritemnodon; Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Tritemnodon agilis skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:	†Proviverrinae
Genus:	†Tritemnodon
Species
	†T. strenuus Marsh, 1872; †T. agilis Matthew, 1906;

Tritemnodon was a genus of hyaeanodontid which lived 54-38 million years ago. Fossils of this animal have been found in Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County, Wyoming. It was the size of a wolf.

Restoration

References

Naoko Eg et al. (2004). "A new genus and species of hyaenodontid creodont from the Pondaung Formation (Eocene, Myanmar)" Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(2): 502–506 doi:10.1671/2481.

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