Uintacyon

Uintacyon[1]
Temporal range: late Paleocene to middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivoramorpha
Family: Miacidae
Genus: Uintacyon
Leidy, 1872
Type species
Uintacyon edax
Species
  • U. asodes
  • U. bathygnathous
  • U. edax
  • U. gingerichi
  • U. jugulans
  • U. massetericus
  • U. rudis
  • U. vorax

Uintacyon is an extinct genus of Miacidae. There are at least two species in the genus; Uintacyon rudis and Uintacyon gingerichi, the latter being recently discovered.

Notes

  1. Heinrich et al., 2008

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