Maocyon

Maocyon Temporal range: 37.7–33.9  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Late Eocene
skull of Maocyon peregrinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	† Hyainailouroidea
Family:	† Hyainailouridae
Subfamily:	† Hyainailourinae
Genus:	† Maocyon Averianov et al., 2023 [1]
Type species
†Maocyon peregrinus Averianov et al., 2023 [1]

Maocyon ("dog from Maoming") is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Hyainailourinae within paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae, that lived during the late Eocene in China. ^{[1] [2]} It is a monotypic genus that contains the species M. peregrinus. ^[1]

References

1. Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (27 February 2023). "A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 11. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819 . ISSN   2296-701X.
2. Sheng, J.; Bi, S.; Li, Q. (2024). "A new hyainailourid (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of Mianchi of Henan, China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 63 (3): 386–403. doi:10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024004.