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Miocyon

Miocyon
Temporal range: 50.5–37.0 Ma early to late Eocene
lower jaw of Miocyon major
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Miocyon
Matthew, 1909
Type species
Miocyon scotti
Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
  • M. bathygnathus (Scott, 1888)[1]
  • M. magnus (Bryant, 1992)[2]
  • M. major (Matthew, 1909)[3]
  • M. scotti (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)[4]
  • M. vallisrubrae (Friscia & Rasmussen, 2010)[5]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • M. bathygnathus:
    • Miacis bathygnathus (Scott, 1888)
    • Uintacyon bathygnathus (Matthew, 1909)
  • M. major:
    • Uintacyon major (Matthew, 1909)
  • M. scotti:
    • Amphicyon vulpinum (Scott & Osborn, 1887)
    • Amphicyon vulpinus (Scott & Osborn, 1887)
    • Miacis vulpinus (Matthew, 1909)
    • Prodaphaenus scotti (Scott & Osborn, 1887)[6]
    • Uintacyon scotti (Matthew, 1909)
    • Uintacyon vulpinus (Hay, 1902)[7]
  • M. vallisrubrae:
    • Uintacyon scotti (Gustafson, 1986)[8]

Miocyon ("lesser dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to late Eocene.[9][10][11]

References

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  1. ^ W. B. Scott (1888) "On some new and little know creodonts." Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9:155-185
  2. ^ H. N. Bryant. (1992) "The Carnivora of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna (Eocene Duchesnean), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan." Journal of Paleontology 66(5):847-855
  3. ^ W. D. Matthew (1909) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
  4. ^ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899) "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
  5. ^ Anthony R. Friscia and D. Tab Rassmussen (2010) „Middle Eocene Carnivoramorpha of the Uinta Basin, Utah”. Annals of Carnegie Museum, vol. 79 (1), pp. 51-63
  6. ^ W. B. Scott and H. F. Osborn (1887.) "Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Fossils of the Uinta Formation, Collected by the Princeton Expedition of 1886." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 24(126):255-264
  7. ^ O. P. Hay (1902) "Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America." Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868
  8. ^ E. P. Gustafson (1986) "Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas." Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66
  9. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  10. ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521355193
  11. ^ Tomiya, Susumu; Tseng, Zhijie Jack (2016). "Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene 'Miacis' from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". Royal Society Open Science. 3 (10): 160518. Bibcode:2016RSOS....3p0518T. doi:10.1098/rsos.160518. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 5098994. PMID 27853569.
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