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Pogonodon platycopis
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By sseth
Taxonomy
Pogonodon
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Haeckel 1874
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Nimravidae
Genus: Pogonodon
Species: Pogonodon platycopis
Author Citation Cope, 1879
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Oligocene
International Age: 30.8 to 20.43 Ma
Stratigraphy
John Day
Units E and F
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Length: 9.2 "
Location
Wheeler County
Oregon
United States
Comments
This is an amazing Pogonodon platycopis skull from the John Day Formation in Oregon. These are some of the most rare of the Nimravidae, as well as some of the oldest.
See also Eaton 1922, Fremd et al. 1994, Macdonald 1970, Matthew 1910, Scott and Jepsen 1936 and Thorpe 1920
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