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Extinct genus of carnivores
Miocyon
Temporal range: 50.5–37.0
Ma early to late
Eocene
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lower jaw of Miocyon major
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Clade:
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Pan-Carnivora
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Clade:
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Carnivoramorpha
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Clade:
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Carnivoraformes
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Genus:
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Miocyon
Matthew, 1909
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Type species
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†Miocyon scotti
Wortman & Matthew, 1899
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Species
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- †M. bathygnathus (Scott, 1888)
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- †M. magnus (Bryant, 1992)
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- †M. major (Matthew, 1909)
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- †M. scotti (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
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- †M. vallisrubrae (Friscia & Rasmussen, 2010)
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Synonyms
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- Miacis bathygnathus (Scott, 1888)
- Uintacyon bathygnathus (Matthew, 1909)
- Uintacyon major (Matthew, 1909)
- Amphicyon vulpinum (Scott & Osborn, 1887)
- Amphicyon vulpinus (Scott & Osborn, 1887)
- Miacis vulpinus (Matthew, 1909)
- Prodaphaenus scotti (Scott & Osborn, 1887)
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- Uintacyon scotti (Matthew, 1909)
- Uintacyon vulpinus (Hay, 1902)
[7]
- Uintacyon scotti (Gustafson, 1986)
[8]
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Miocyon ("lesser dog") is an
extinct
genus of placental mammals from clade
Carnivoraformes, that lived in
North America from the early to late
Eocene.
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^ W. B. Scott (1888)
"On some new and little know creodonts." Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9:155-185
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^ 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
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^ 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
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^ 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
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^ 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
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^ 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
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^ O. P. Hay (1902)
"Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America." Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868
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^ E. P. Gustafson (1986)
"Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas." Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66
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^ 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.
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^ 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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^ 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....3p0518T.
doi:
10.1098/rsos.160518.
ISSN
2054-5703.
PMC
5098994.
PMID
27853569.
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