Lambertocyon
| Lambertocyon Temporal range: Paleocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Arctocyonidae |
| Genus: | †Lambertocyon Gingerich, 1979 |
| Type species | |
| Lambertocyon eximius | |
| Species | |
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Lambertocyon is a genus of ungulates from western North America. Three species are known, making their last appearance in the Late Paleocene Clarkforkian stage.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ Gingerich, P. D. (1979). "Lambertocyon eximius, a new arctocyonid (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of western North America". Journal of Paleontology 53 (3): 524–529. JSTOR 1303992.
- ↑ Archibald, J. David (1998). "Archaic ungulates ("Condylarthra")". In Christine M. Janis; Kathleen M. Scott; Louis L. Jacobs. Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals. Cambridge University Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-521-35519-3.
- ↑ Michael O. Woodburne, ed. (2012). "Paleocene Biochronology: The Puercan Through Clarkforkian Land Mammal Ages". Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Biostratigraphy and Geochronology. Columbia University Press. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-0-231-50378-5.
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