Tritemnodon

Taxobox
name = "Tritemnodon"
fossil_range = Eocene

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Tritemnodon agilis" skeleton
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Eutheria
superordo = Laurasiatheria
ordo = †Creodonta
familia = †Hyaenodontidae
subfamilia = †Proviverrinae
genus = "†Tritemnodon"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "†T. agilis"
* "†T. sp."

"Tritemnodon" was a genus of creodont which lived 54-38 million years ago. Fossils of this animal have been found in Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County, Wyoming. It was the size of a wolf. [ [http://www.infohub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8476 Tritemnodon - A Creodont - InfoHub ] ]

References

* Naoko Eg "et al." (2004). [http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1671%2F2481&ct=1 "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.