Hypsodontus

Hypsodontus; Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	†Hypsodontinae
Genus:	†Hypsodontus; Sokolov, 1949
Type species
	Hypsodontus miocenicus; Sokolov, 1949

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 2 3 Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.
↑ Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.

[Osnovy1962-1] 1 2 3 Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.

[Sokolov1949-2] Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.

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