Tritemnodon

Tritemnodon; Temporal range: 50.3–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Eocene
	Restoration of Tritemnodon agilis
	Tritemnodon agilis skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Genus:	†Tritemnodon; Matthew, 1906
Type species
	†Tritemnodon agilis; Marsh, 1872[1]
Synonyms
	synonyms of speacies: T. agilis: Limnocyon agilis (Marsh, 1872) ; Sinopa agilis ; Sinopa brevicalcaratus (Cope, 1872) ; Sinopa gracilis (Wortman, 1902) ; Stypolophus agilis ; Stypolophus brevicalcaratus (Cope, 1872) ; Stypolophus brevicolcarabus (Cope, 1872) ; ;

Tritemnodon ("three cutting teeth") was a genus of hyaeanodontid which lived 50.3-46.2 million years ago.[2] Fossils of Tritemnodon agilis have been found in Utah and Wyoming (Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County), and it was the size of a wolf.

References

O. C. Marsh (1872.) "Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224
Gingerich, Philip D., and Harvey A. Deutsch (1989). "Systematics and evolution of early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming". Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 27 (13): 327–391.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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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[1] O. C. Marsh (1872.) "Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II." American Journal of Science 4(21):202-224

[2] Gingerich, Philip D., and Harvey A. Deutsch (1989). "Systematics and evolution of early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming". Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 27 (13): 327–391.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)