Procynodictis

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Procynodictis
Temporal range: 50.5–39.7  Ma
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early to middle Eocene
Procynodictis vulpiceps.jpg
lower jaw of Procynodictis vulpiceps
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Procynodictis
Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Type species
Procynodictis vulpiceps
Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
  • P. progressus(Stock, 1935) [1]
  • P. vulpiceps(Wortman & Matthew, 1899) [2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Plesiomiacis(Simpson, 1945) [3]
synonyms of species:
  • P. progressus:
    • Plesiomiacis progressus(Simpson, 1945) [3]
    • Viverravus progressus(Stock, 1935)

Procynodictis ("before Cynodictis ") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene. [4] [5] [6]

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References

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  2. 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
  3. 1 2 Simpson, George Gaylord (1945). "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 85: 350. hdl:2246/1104.
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