Miocyon

Not to be confused with Maocyon or Myacyon.

Miocyon Temporal range: 50.5–37.0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to late Eocene
lower jaw of Miocyon major
Scientific classification
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

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....360518T. doi:10.1098/rsos.160518. ISSN   2054-5703. PMC   5098994 . PMID   27853569.