Minimovellentodon
| Minimovellentodon Temporal range: Early Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
| Clade: | †Proviverrinae |
| Genus: | †Minimovellentodon Solé et al., 2014[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Minimovellentodon russelli Solé et al., 2014[1]
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Minimovellentodon ("small scraping tooth") is an extinct genus of proviverrine hyaenodonts that lived in France during the early Eocene. It is a monotypic genus that contains the species M. russelli.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi:10.1111/zoj.12155.