Hypsodontus

Hypsodontus
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: †Hypsodontinae
Genus: †Hypsodontus
Sokolov, 1949
Type species
Hypsodontus miocenicus
Sokolov, 1949[1]

Hypsodontus is an extinct genus of Bovidae from subfamily Hypsodontinae. It was originally described from a single jaw fragment of its type species H. miocenicus Sokolov, 1949, found in the North Caucasus of Russia, Middle Miocene. Includes five species.[2][1]

Characteristics

Size medium. Molars with relatively high crowns, lacking additional columns and tubercles. Second and third molars with clear outer folds on anterior margins; other margins rounded. Third molar talonid narrow.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.
  2. ^ Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.