Limnocyon

Limnocyon; Temporal range: 50.3–42.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle Eocene
	Skull of Limnocyon verus
	Life Restoration of L. verus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Clade:	†Limnocyoninae
Genus:	†Limnocyon; Marsh, 1872
Type species
	†Limnocyon verus; Marsh, 1872
Species
	†L. cuspidens (Morlo & Gunnell, 2005); †L. potens (Matthew, 1909); †L. verus (Marsh, 1872);
Synonyms
	synonyms of genus: Telmatocyon (Marsh, 1899) ; synonyms of species: L. potens: Limnocyon douglassi (Peterson, 1919) ; Limnocyon protens (Kay, 1957) ; ; L. verus: Limnocyon riparius (Marsh, 1872) ; Oxyaenodon wortmani (Van Valen, 1966) ; Sinopa vera (Matthew, 1899) ; Sinopa verus (Matthew, 1901) ; Stypolophus verus ; Telmatocyon riparius (Marsh, 1899) ; Triacodon grandis (Marsh, 1872) ; Viverravus riparius (Marsh, 1872) ; ;

Limnocyon ("swamp dog") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonin hyaenodonts that lived in North America during the middle Eocene. Fossils of this animal have been found in California, Utah and Wyoming.^[7]

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Limnocyon Temporal range: 50.3–42.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle Eocene

Skull of Limnocyon verus

Life Restoration of L. verus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Clade:	†Limnocyoninae
Genus:	†Limnocyon Marsh, 1872
Type species
†Limnocyon verus Marsh, 1872
Species
†L. cuspidens (Morlo & Gunnell, 2005)^[1] †L. potens (Matthew, 1909)^[2] †L. verus (Marsh, 1872)^[3]
Synonyms^[4]
synonyms of genus: Telmatocyon (Marsh, 1899) synonyms of species: L. potens: Limnocyon douglassi (Peterson, 1919)^[5] Limnocyon protens (Kay, 1957) L. verus: Limnocyon riparius (Marsh, 1872) Oxyaenodon wortmani (Van Valen, 1966)^[6] Sinopa vera (Matthew, 1899) Sinopa verus (Matthew, 1901) Stypolophus verus Telmatocyon riparius (Marsh, 1899) Triacodon grandis (Marsh, 1872) Viverravus riparius (Marsh, 1872)