Lohoodon is a genus of mesonychid mesonychians which lived during the middle Eocene. Fossils of Lohoodon are found in middle Eocene-aged strata of China and Pakistan.[1]

Lohoodon was originally described as a large hapalodectid, first as an "undescribed species of Hapalodectes," then later as "Hapalodectes lushiensis," on the basis of teeth and jaw fragments very similar to Hapalodectes, but suggesting an animal comparable in size to Mesonyx. In 1987, Ting & Li refer Lohoodon and Metahapalodectes to Mesonychidae due to the lower molar teeth of both genera lacking a re-entrant groove on the mesial or anterior side, a feature diagnostic of Hapalodectidae.[2][3]

Species

  • Genus Lohoodon
    • L. lushiensis

References

  1. ^ Xiaoyuan Zhou, Renjie Zhai, Gingerich, P. D., & Liezu Chen. (1995). Skull of a New Mesonychid (Mammalia, Mesonychia) from the Late Paleocene of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(2), 387–400. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4523638
  2. ^ SolÚ, FlorÚal, et al. "The first species of Hapalodectes (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from the middle Paleocene of China (Qianshan Basin, Anhui Province) sheds light on the initial radiation of hapalodectids." Palaeontology 60.3 (2017): 433-449.
  3. ^ TING and L I , C. K. 1987. The skull of Hapalodectes (Acreodi, Mammalia), with notes on some Chinese Paleocene mesonychids. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 25, 161–186.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohoodon
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