Vassacyon

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Mammalia

Clade:Pan-Carnivora

Clade:Carnivoramorpha

Vassacyon Temporal range: 57.2–50.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N late Paleocene to early Eocene
Skull of Vassacyon promicrodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Vassacyon Matthew, 1909[1]
Type species
†Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
†V. bowni (Heinrich, 2008)[2] †V. prieuri (Solé, 2016)[3] †V. promicrodon (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)[4] †V. taxidiotis (Solé, 2013)[5]
Synonyms
synonyms of species: V. promicrodon: Prodaphaenus promicrodon (Wortman, 1901)[6] Uintacyon promicrodon (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)

Vassacyon ("wasatchian dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Paleocene to early Eocene.^[7][8][9] It is considered the largest of the early Eocene mammals.