Apterodontinae

Not to be confused with Apteronotidae or Apteronotinae.

Apterodontinae ("without winged tooth") is an extinct subfamily of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae, specialised for aquatic, otter-like habits.^[2] They lived in Africa and Europe from the late Eocene to middle Oligocene.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Apterodontinae Temporal range: 39.6–27.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Eocene to Middle Oligocene
Two views of the skull of Apterodon macrognathus
Apterodon macrognathus life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	†Hyainailouroidea
Family:	†Hyainailouridae
Subfamily:	†Apterodontinae Szalay, 1967[1]
Type genus
†Apterodon Fischer, 1880
Genera
†Apterodon †Quasiapterodon
Synonyms
Apterodontini (Szalay, 1967)

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Subfamily: †Apterodontinae (Szalay, 1967) Genus: †Apterodon (Fischer, 1880) †Apterodon altidens (Schlosser, 1910) †Apterodon gaudryi (Fischer, 1880) †Apterodon langebadreae (Grohé, 2012) †Apterodon macrognathus (Andrews, 1904) †Apterodon rauenbergensis (Frey, 2010) †Apterodon saghensis (Simons & Gingerich, 1976) †Apterodon sp. [Dur At-Talah escarpment, Libya] (Grohé, 2012) Genus: †Quasiapterodon (Lavrov, 1999) †Quasiapterodon minutus (Schlosser, 1910)