Tritemnodon

Tritemnodon; Temporal range: Early Eocene
	Restoration of Tritemnodon agilis
	Tritemnodon agilis skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Genus:	†Tritemnodon; Matthew, 1906
Type species
	†Tritemnodon agilis; Marsh, 1872
Synonyms
	synonyms of species: T. agilis: Limnocyon agilis (Marsh, 1872) ; Sinopa agilis (Matthew, 1901) ; Sinopa brevicalcaratus (Cope, 1872) ; Sinopa gracilis (Wortman, 1902) ; Stypolophus agilis ; Stypolophus brevicolcarabus (Cope, 1872) ; Stypolophus brevicalcaratus (Cope, 1872) ; ;

Tritemnodon ("three cutting teeth") was an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. 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.

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