Pogonodon

Pog-o-no-don.
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Name

Pogonodon

Phonetic

Pog-o-no-don.

Named By

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Mammalia,‭ ‬Carnivora,‭ ‬Nimravidae,‭ ‬Nimravinae.

Diet

Carnivore.

Species

‬P.‭ ‬platycopis

Size

‭U‬navailable.

Known locations

Eurasia and North America.

Time Period

Rupelian of the Oligocene through to the Tortonian of the Miocene.

Fossil representation

Several individuals.

In Depth

       A little known nimravid,‭ ‬Pogonodon seems to have had a wide distribution from the USA to the Ukraine as well as existing for around twenty-three and half million years.‭ ‬This suggests that Pogonodon would have been one of the most successful genera of nimravid so far known.

Further Reading

Further reading- Scientific news. – The American Naturalist 13(12):798a-798b. – E. D. Cope – 1879.- Carnivora From the Tertiary Formations of the John Day Region. – University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(1):1-64. – J. C. Merriam – 1906.- New species of Oligocene (White River) Felidae. – American Journal of Science 50(297):207-224. – M. R. Thorpe – 1920.

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