Paramiacis

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Paramiacis
Temporal range: 40.0–37.5 Ma
middle to late Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Paramiacis
Mathis, 1985[1]
Type species
Paramiacis exilis
Filhol, 1876
Species
  • P. exilis (Filhol, 1876)[2]
  • P. teilhardi (Mathis, 1987)[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. exilis:
    • Cynodictis exilis (Filhol, 1876)
    • Miacis exilis (Teilhard, 1888)
  • P. teilhardi:
    • Miacis exilis (Guth, 1964)[4]
    • Miacis exilis forme A (Teilhard, 1915)[5]
    • Paramiacis exilis (Mathis, 1985)

Paramiacis ("near Miacis") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe from the middle to late Eocene.[6][7] Species P. exilis and P. teilhardi were long believed to be the same species (P. exilis), with differences that were only represented as an example of sexual dimorphism.

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