Uintacyon

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Uintacyon
Temporal range: 55.2–39.7 Ma early to middle Eocene
lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Uintacyon
Leidy, 1872
Type species
Uintacyon edax
Leidy, 1872
Species
  • U. acutus (Thorpe, 1923)[1]
  • U. asodes (Gazin, 1952)[2]
  • U. edax (Leidy, 1872)[3]
  • U. gingerichi (Heinrich, 2008)[4]
  • U. hookeri (Solé, 2014)[5]
  • U. jugulans (Matthew, 1909)[6]
  • U. massetericus (Cope, 1882)[7]
  • U. rudis (Rose, 1981)[8]
  • U. vorax (Leidy, 1872)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Triacodon (Cope, 1872)[9]
synonyms of species:
  • U. edax:
    • Miacis edax (Cope, 1884)[10]
  • U. massetericus:
    • Didymictis massetericus (Cope, 1882)
    • Viverravus massetericus (Hay, 1902)[11]
  • U. rudis:
    • Uintacyon massetericus rudis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)[12]
  • U. vorax:
    • Miacis vorax (Cope, 1884)

Uintacyon ("dog of the Uinta Mountains")[13] is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[14][15]

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