Machaeroides
Machaeroides ("dagger-like") is an extinct genus of sabre-toothed predatory placental mammals from extinct subfamily Machaeroidinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America (Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene.
| Machaeroides Temporal range: early to middle Eocene | |
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| Machaeroides eothen skull | |
| Machaeroides eothen restoration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machaeroidinae |
| Genus: | †Machaeroides Matthew, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| †Machaeroides eothen Matthew, 1909 | |
| Species | |
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| A map showing the fossil finds of Machaeroides as well as other machaeroidinid genera. | |
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