Miocyon

Miocyon[1]
Temporal range: ?early to late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivoramorpha
Family: Miacidae
Genus: Miocyon
(Matthew, 1909)
Type species
Uintacyon (Miocyon) scotti
Species
  • M. magnus
  • M. major
  • M. scotti
  • M. vallisrubrae

Miocyon is an extinct genus of Miacidae, primitive carnivores which lived during the Paleocene and Eocene Epoch.

Notes

  1. Flynn, 1998

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