Hoplophoneus

Hoplophoneus; Temporal range: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene
	H. primaevus skeleton, Zurich natural history museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	†Nimravidae
Subfamily:	†Hoplophoninae
Genus:	†Hoplophoneus; Cope, 1874
Species
	H. cerebralis (Cope, 1880); H. dakotensis (Hatcher, 1895); H. oharrai (Jepsen, 1926); H. occidentalis (Leidy, 1866); H. primaevus (Leidy, 1851) (type); H. sicarius (Sinclair and Jepsen, 1927); H. strigidens (Cope 1878);
Synonyms
	H. oreodontis;

Hoplophoneus (Greek: "murder" (phonos), "weapon" (hoplo)) is an extinct genus of the family Nimravidae, endemic to North America during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epochs (35–29 mya), existing for approximately 6 million years.

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