Hyaenodonta
| Hyaenodonta Temporal range: Early Paleocene to Late Miocene (Suspected Late Cretaceous origin, but unconfirmed by fossils yet) | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Mirorder: | Ferae |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta Van Valen, 1967 |
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Hyaenodonta ("hyena teeth") is an extinct order of hypercarnivorous placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae. Hyaenodonts were important mammalian predators that arose during the early Paleocene in Europe and persisted well into the late Miocene.