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Hyaenodon sp. - fossil creodont mammal skull from the Oligocene of South Dakota, USA. (public display, Dakota Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson, North Dakota, USA)

From museum signage: "Hyaenodon, a four-foot long flesh-eating mammal, occupied the Northern Plains region. It may have been hyaena-like in habits, actively hunting down other animals but also scavenging dead ones."

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Placentalia, Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae

Stratigraphy: Brule Formation, Lower Oligocene

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site in South Dakota, USA

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Author James St. John

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