Lahimia
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Extinct genus of mammals
Lahimia | |
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Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
Genus: | †Lahimia Solé, 2009[1] |
Type species | |
†Lahimia selloumi Solé, 2009
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Lahimia ("carnivore")[1] is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, known from the middle Paleocene (Selandian stage) of Morocco.[1] Lahimia selloumi is the one of the oldest known members of order Hyaenodonta.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d SOLÉ, FLORÉAL; GHEERBRANT, EMMANUEL; AMAGHZAZ, MBAREK; BOUYA, BAÂDI (2009). "Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (4): 827–846. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x .
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