Tapocyon
Extinct genus of carnivores
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Tapocyon ("dog from Tapo Canyon") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.[5][6] Tapocyon was about the size of a coyote and is believed to have been a good climber that spent a lot of time in trees.[7]
| Tapocyon Temporal range: middle Eocene | |
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| Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus | |
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| Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: | †Tapocyon Stock, 1934[1] |
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| †Tapocyon robustus Peterson, 1919 | |
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