Falcatodon schlosseri ( HOLROYD , 1999)

Morales, Jorge & Pickford, Martin, 2017, New Hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) From The Early Miocene Of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) And Grillental (Namibia), Fossil Imprint 73 (3 - 4), pp. 332-359 : 344

Falcatodon schlosseri ( HOLROYD, 1999)

H o l o t y p e. Left dentary containing canine alveolus,

p2 – m3 (DPC 4877).

T y p e l o c a l i t y. Quarry V, upper sequence of Jebel

Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt.

A g e. Rupelian ( Seiffert 2010).

D i a g n o s i s. The same as for the genus.

D i s c u s s i o n. Holroyd (1999) recognized that “although the Eocene-Oligocene species referred here to Metapterodon may ultimately prove to be a seperate genus from M. kaiseri , I have here united them in an attempt to demonstrate their distinctiveness from both Hyaenodon and Pterodon , and their probable closer relationship to one another than to contemporaneous species of Pterodon ”. The weaker development of the isthmus between the protocone and paracone and the more distal position of the protocone in the upper molars of Falcatodon schlosseri are closer to Isohyaenodon zadoki than to Metapterodon spp. but in any case, are different from both genera.