Tapocyon

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Tapocyon
Temporal range: 46.2–39.7  Ma
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middle Eocene
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Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus
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Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Tapocyon
Stock, 1934 [1]
Type species
Tapocyon robustus
Peterson, 1919
Species
  • T. dawsonae(Wesley & Flynn, 2003) [2]
  • T. robustus(Peterson, 1919) [3]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • T. robustus:
    • Miacis robustus(Gazin, 1956) [4]
    • Prodaphaenus robustus(Peterson, 1919)
    • Tapocyon occidentalis(Stock, 1934)
    • Uintacyon robustus

Tapocyon ("dog from Tapo Canyon") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene. [5] [6] Tapocyon was about the size of a coyote and is believed to have been a good climber that spent a lot of time in trees. [7]

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References

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  2. Wesley, G. D.; Flynn, J. J. (2003). "A revision of Tapocyon (Carnivoramorpha), including analysis of the first cranial specimens and identification of a new species". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (4): 769–783. Bibcode:2003JPal...77..769W. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0769:AROTCI>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR   4094822. S2CID   85962560.
  3. O. A. Peterson (1919.) "Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912." Annals of Carnegie Museum 12(2):40-168
  4. Gazin, C. L. (1956.) "The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Upper Eocene Strata in the Northeastern Part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming, Pt. 2, The Mammalian Fauna of the Badwater Area." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 131(8):16–35.
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  6. 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
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