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Oxyaenidae is a family of carnivorous mammals. Traditionally classified in Creodonta, this group may be related to pangolins. The group contains four subfamilies comprising thirteen genera.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyaenidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4834348	https://www.gbif.org/species/4834348
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40954	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40954

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Oxyaenidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Oxyaenidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Oxyaenodonta	Van Valen 1971
family	Oxyaenidae	Cope 1877

Scientific Name

Oxyaenidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Creodonta	stated with evidence	Cope, 1880
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Creodonta	stated without evidence	Cope, 1880
Oxyaenidae	family	subjective synonym of Hyaenodontidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Carnivora	stated without evidence	Peterson, 1919
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Oxyaenoidea	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Creodonta	implied	Carroll, 1988
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Creodonta	stated with evidence	Stucky and Hardy, 2007
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Creodonta	stated without evidence	Chester et al., 2010
Oxyaenidae	family	belongs to Oxyaenodonta	stated with evidence	Zack, 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

61.7 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Diet

carnivore

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1877. Report upon the extinct Vertebrata obtained in New Mexico by parties of the Expedition of 1874. Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in Charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, under the Direction of Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army 4:1-370

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyaenidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Machaeroidinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Oxyaeninae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		165	58.7 Ma Paleocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Palaeonictinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		50	56.8 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Apataelurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dipsalidictis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		54	61.7 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Dipsalodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		10	61.7 Ma Paleocene	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Dormaalodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Machaeroides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Malfelis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protopsalis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Sarkastodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Tytthaena ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		6	61.7 Ma Paleocene	56.8 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1877	Oxyaenidae Cope p. 89
1880	Oxyaenidae Cope
1891	Oxyaenidae Cope p. 6
1919	Oxyaenidae Peterson p. 42
1967	Oxyaenidae Van Valen
1988	Oxyaenidae Carroll
2007	Oxyaenidae Stucky and Hardy
2010	Oxyaenidae Chester et al. p. 232
2012	Oxyaenidae Rose et al. p. 60
2019	Oxyaenidae Zack p. 17

References

Cope E. D. Report upon the extinct Vertebrata obtained in New Mexico by parties of the Expedition of 1874, Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in Charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, under the Direction of Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army 4, 1-370

Cope E. D. On the genera of the Creodonta, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19, 76-82

Cope E. D. On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North West Territory: The species from the Oligocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cypress Hills, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3, 1-25

Peterson O. A. (1919) Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912, Annals of Carnegie Museum 12 2, 40-168

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Stucky R. K., Hardy T. G. (2007) A new large, hypercarnivorous oxyaenid (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the middle Eocene of the Wind River Formation, Natrona County, Wyoming, Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 39, 57-65

Chester S. G. B., Bloch J. I., et al (2010) A new small-bodied species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 17 4, 227-243

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Zack S. P. (2019) The first North American Propterodon (Hyaenodonta: Hyaenodontidae), a new species from the late Uintan of Utah, PeerJ 7 e8136, 1-32 doi:10.7717/peerj.8136

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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