| Sivapterodon Temporal range: middle Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyainailourinae |
| Tribe: | †Hyainailourini |
| Genus: | †Sivapterodon Ginsburg, 19801 |
| Type species | |
| †Sivapterodon lahirii Pilgrim, 19322
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Sivapterodon ("Shiva's Pterodon") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae that lived in Pakistan during the middle Miocene.345
References
References
- Ginsburg, L. (1980.) "Hyainailouros sulzeri, mammifère créodonte du Miocène européen." Annales de Paléontologie, 66: 19–73.
- Pilgrim G. E. (1932.) "The fossil Carnivora of India." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologica Indica, 18:1-232.
- McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- M. Morlo, E. R. Miller and A. N. El-Barkooky (2007.) "Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
- Floréal Solé; Eli Amson; Matthew Borths; Dominique Vidalenc; Michael Morlo; Katharina Bastl (2015). "A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)". PLOS ONE. 10 (9) e0135698. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1035698S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135698. PMC 4580617. PMID 26398622.