Paleontologists Identify New Hyaenodont Species in Pakistan

Paleontologists have recovered the fossilized remains of three hyaenodont species, including one previously unknown to science, from Miocene sediments in Pakistan.

Paleontologists Identify New Hyaenodont Species in Pakistan. Paleontologists have recovered the fossilized remains of three hyaenodont species, including one previously unknown to science, from Miocene sediments in Pakistan. Metapterodon anari . Image credit: Steven Jasinski / SergeyAtrox1. “ Hyaenodonts were some of the most important mammalian carnivores before cats and dogs and the other mammalian predators we know today evolved and began to take over those niches, and some of them got to incredibly large sizes,” said Harrisburg University of Science and Technology’s Professor Steven Jasinski . In a new study, Professor Jasinski and his colleagues examined fossils of three different hyaenodonts that lived between 14 and 9.5 million years ago. The specimens came from the Chinji and Nagri formations of the Lower and Middle Siwaliks in Pa...