Oödectes[1] Fossil range: late Paleocene to middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivoramorpha
Family:	†Miacidae
Genus:	†Oödectes Wortman, 1901
Type species
†Oödectes herpestoides
Species
†O. herpestoides †O. jepseni

Oödectes is an extinct genus of Miacidae.

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[edit] References

• Heinrich, R.E. (1997). "Referral of Miacis jepseni Guthrie to Oodectes Wortman, and an assessment of phylogenetic relationships among early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". Journal of Paleontology 71 (6): 1172–1178. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3360(199711)71%3A6%3C1172%3AROMJGT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 

[edit] Sources

• findarticles.com
• Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado by Peter Robinson
• nmnaturalhistory.org
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America by National Academy of

Sciences (U.S.)

• paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu:8110

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