Pyrocyon

Pyrocyon Temporal range: 55.8–50.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Wasatchian
parts of upper and lower jaws of Pyrocyon strenuus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Genus:	†Pyrocyon Gingerich & Deustch, 1989
Type species
†Pyrocyon dioctetus Gingerich & Deustch, 1989
Species
†P. dioctetus (Gingerich & Deustch, 1989)[1] †P. strenuus (Cope, 1875)[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Pirocyon (Lavrov, 1999)[3] synonyms of species: P. strenuus: Prototomus strenuus (Cope, 1875) Stypolophus aculeatus (Cope, 1881) Stypolophus hians (Cope, 1877) Stypolophus strenuus (Cope, 1880) Stypolophus whiteae (Cope, 1882)[4] Stypolophus whitiae (Cope, 1882) Sinopa aculeata (Matthew, 1899) Sinopa hians (Matthew, 1901) Sinopa strenua (Matthew, 1899) Sinopa strenuus (Matthew, 1901) Sinopa whitiae (Cope, 1882) Tritemnodon hians (Van Valen, 1965)[5] Tritemnodon strenua (Van Valen, 1965) Tritemnodon strenuus (Van Valen, 1965) Tritemnodon whitiae (Matthew, 1906)

Pyrocyon ("fire dog") is an extinct genus of small carnivorous placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. Fossils of Pyrocyon have been found in Wyoming and Colorado.^[6] Weight of Pyrocyon dioctetus has been estimated at around 2.6 kilograms.^[7]