| Hypsodontus Temporal range: Miocene | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hypsodontinae |
| Genus: | †Hypsodontus Sokolov, 1949 |
| Type species | |
| Hypsodontus miocenicus Sokolov, 1949 | |
Hypsodontus is an extinct genus of Bovidae from subfamily Hypsodontinae. It was originally described from a single jaw fragment of its type species H. miocenicus Sokolov, 1949, found in the North Caucasus of Russia, Middle Miocene. Includes five species.
Characteristics
Size medium. Molars with relatively high crowns, lacking additional columns and tubercles. Second and third molars with clear outer folds on anterior margins; other margins rounded. Third molar talonid narrow.
References
- ^ Gromova, V.I., ed. (1962). Osnovy paleontologii. Mlekopitajushchie. Moskva. Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatelstvo literature po geologii i okhrane nedr.
- Sokolov, I.I. (1949). "Ob ostatkakh polorogikh (Bovidae, Mammalia) iz sr. miotsena Severnogo Kavkaza". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 57 (6): 1101–1104.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Hypsodontus | |