Lahimia

Lahimia
Temporal range: middle Paleocene
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Clade: Boualitominae
Genus:
Solé, 2009[1]
Type species
Lahimia selloumi
Solé, 2009[1]

Lahimia ("carnivore")[1] is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct paraphyletic clade Boualitominae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, known from the middle Paleocene (Selandian stage) of Morocco.[1] Lahimia selloumi is one of the oldest known members of order Hyaenodonta.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Solé, Floréal; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, Baâdi (2009). "Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (4): 827–846. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x.