Harpagolestes

Harpagolestes
Temporal range:
Skull of H. immanis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Mesonychia
Family: †Mesonychidae
Genus: †Harpagolestes
Wortman, 1901
Species
  • H. immanis
  • "H." koreanicus
  • ?H. orientalis
  • H. uintensis
  • H. macrocephalus (type)
  • H. brevipes
  • H. leotensis
  • H. leei

Harpagolestes ("hooked thief") is an extinct genus of hyena like, bear sized mesonychid mesonychian that lived in Central and Eastern Asia and western and central North America during the middle to late Eocene. It has been suggested that Harpagolestes is a wastebasket genus for fragmentary Eocene mesonychids.

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