Uintacyon

Uintacyon Temporal range: 55.2–39.7  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to middle Eocene
lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	† Uintacyon Leidy, 1872
Type species
†Uintacyon edax Leidy, 1872
Species
†U. acutus(Thorpe, 1923) [1] †U. asodes(Gazin, 1952) [2] †U. edax(Leidy, 1872) [3] †U. gingerichi(Heinrich, 2008) [4] †U. hookeri(Solé, 2014) [5] †U. jugulans(Matthew, 1909) [6] †U. massetericus(Cope, 1882) [7] †U. rudis(Rose, 1981) [8] †U. vorax(Leidy, 1872)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Triacodon(Cope, 1872) [9] synonyms of species: U. edax: Miacis edax(Cope, 1884) [10] U. massetericus: Didymictis massetericus(Cope, 1882) Viverravus massetericus(Hay, 1902) [11] U. rudis: Uintacyon massetericus rudis(Matthew & Granger, 1915) [12] U. vorax: Miacis vorax(Cope, 1884)

Uintacyon ("dog of the Uinta Mountains") ^[13] is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene. ^{[14] [15]}

References

1. M. R. Thorpe (1923.) "Notes on the Bridger (Eocene) Carnivora." Archived 2023-01-09 at the Wayback Machine American Journal of Science 5(25):23-39
2. C. L. Gazin (1952.) "The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82
3. J. Leidy (1872) "Remarks on Fossils from Wyoming." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 24(3):277
4. Heinrich, R. E.; Strait, S. G.; Houde, P. (2008). "Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from northwestern Wyoming" . Journal of Paleontology. 82 (1): 154–162. Bibcode:2008JPal...82..154H. doi:10.1666/05-118.1. S2CID   35030667.
5. Solé, Floréal (2014). "New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 963–978. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..963S. doi:10.1111/pala.12097. ISSN   1475-4983. S2CID   129314381.
6. 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
7. E. D. Cope (1882.) "Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20(111):139-197
8. K. D. Rose (1981.) "The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197
9. E. D. Cope (1872) "Second account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-3
10. E. D. Cope (1884) "Second addition to the knowledge of the Puerco Epoch." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 21(114):309-324
11. O. P. Hay (1902.) "Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America." Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868
12. W. D. Matthew and W. Granger (1915.) "A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(1):1-103
13. Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U.S. Government Printing Office.
14. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-11012-9 . Retrieved 16 March 2015.
15. 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