After Polly, 1996, McKenna & Bell, 1997, and Gunnell, 1998
<==o †Creodonta Cope, 1875 [Subdidelphia Trouessart, 1879; Pseudocreodi Matthew, 1909; Paracarnivora Kretzoi, 1929; Creophaga Kretzoi, 1945; Hyaenodontia Romer, 1966; Creodontiformes Kinman, 1994] (creodonts; kreodontit) |?- †Prionogale breviceps Schmidt-Kittler & Heizmann, 1991; E.Mioc. Af. |?- †Hyaenodontipus Ellerberger, 1980 [ichno-fossil] |?-o †Koholiinae Crochet, 1988 | |-- †Boualitomus marocanensis Gheerbrant, Iarochene, Amaghzaz & Bouya, 2006 | |-- †Lahimia selloumi Sole, Gheerbrant, Amaghzaz & Bouya, 2009 | `-- †Koholia atlasense Crochet, 1988; E.Eoc. NWAf. `--+?-o †Mechaeroidinae Matthew, 1909 [Oxyaenidae?: Mechaeroidinae sensu Gunnell, 1998; Hyaenodontidae: Limnocyoninae: Mechaeroidini sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997] | |-- †Apataelurus kayi Scott, 1938; M.Eoc. NAm. | `--o †Machaeroides Watthew, 1909b; E.-M.Eoc. NAm. | |-- †M. eothen Matthew, 1909b | `-- †M. simpsoni |-- †Oxyaenidae Cope, 1877 [Oxyaenoidea Osborn, 1910 `-- †Hyaenodontidae Leidy, 1869 [Hyaenodontoidea Trouessart, 1885; Hyaenodontida Haeckel, 1895] [incl. Proviverridae Schlosser, 1886; Limnocyonidae Gazin, 1946]
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. 698. - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631 - Solé, F., Gheerbrant, E., Amaghzaz, M. & Bouya, B., 2009: Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid (‘Creodonta’, Mammalia) evolution.
–Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: Vol. 156, #4, pp. 827-846 [doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x]