Dissopsalis

Dissopsalis is a genus of extinct predatory mammals of the family Teratodontidae within the order Hyaenodonta.[1] The older species, D. pyroclasticus, lived in Kenya during the middle Miocene, while the type species, D. carnifex, ranged from, Pakistan, India to China during the middle to late Miocene.[2]

Dissopsalis
Temporal range:
Dissopsalis carnifex skull restoration, specimen AM19401
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Family: †Teratodontidae
Tribe: †Dissopsalini
Genus: †Dissopsalis
Pilgrim, 1910
Type species
Dissopsalis carnifex
Species
  • D. carnifex
  • D. pyroclasticus

Dissopsalis is the last known hyaenodont genus. It lived alongside its relative Hyaenodon weilini, a member of the very successful genus Hyaenodon, during the Miocene in China, and survived to the end of the Miocene, whereas H. weilini did not.

Species
  • Genus Dissopsalis
    • Dissopsalis carnifex
    • Dissopsalis pyroclasticus

References
  1. Borths, M.R.; Seiffert, E.R. (April 2017). "Craniodental and humeral morphology of a new species of Masrasector (Teratodontinae, Hyaenodonta, Placentalia) from the late Eocene of Egypt and locomotor diversity in hyaenodonts". PLoS ONE. 12 (4): e0173527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173527.
  2. Barry, J. C. (1988): Dissopsalis, a middle and late Miocene proviverrine creodont (Mammalia) from Pakistan and Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 48(1): 25–45


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