Tritemnodon ("three cutting teeth") was an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene.[6][7] Fossils of Tritemnodon agilis have been found in Utah and Wyoming (Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County). It was the size of a wolf.
Tritemnodon Temporal range: Eocene
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Restoration of Tritemnodon agilis | |
Tritemnodon agilis skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Genus: | †Tritemnodon Matthew, 1906[1] |
Type species | |
†Tritemnodon agilis Marsh, 1872[2]
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