Dissopsalis
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Dissopsalis |
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| Miocene | ||||||||||||
| ? up to 8 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Dissopsalis | ||||||||||||
| Pilgrim , 1910 | ||||||||||||
Dissopsalis is an extinct genus of hyena-like land mammals from the order of the Hyaenodonta (originally it was placed among the Creodonta ( primal predators ). Dissopsalis is one of the only four genera still occurring in the Miocene from the Hyaenodontidae family.
One of the two known species, D. pyroclasticus , lived in the Middle Miocene in what is now Kenya . D. carnifex, on the other hand, was found in the middle and late Miocene in today's Pakistan , India and China . This species is the only Creodont that has been proven to survive until the end of this age and was only displaced by predators around 8 million years ago .