Pogonodon

Taxobox
name = "Pogonodon"
fossil_range=Late Oligocene




image2_caption="Pogonodon" is labeled as #1 in this "paleobiome" illustration by John Day.|regnum = Animalia
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Nimravidae
subfamilia = Nimravinae
genus = "Pogonodon"

Pogonodon (meaning "beard tooth") was a genus of saber-toothed cats belonging to the Nimravidae, an extinct carnivoran family that strongly resembled the modern Felidae in overall appearance. "Pogonodon" is known from the Late Oligocene of North AmericaMalcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: "Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level" Columbia University Press, New York 1997, 631 Seiten, ISBN 0-231-11013-8] .

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