Gracilocyon
Appearance
Gracilocyon Temporal range: Early Eocene
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Gracilocyon Smith & Smith, 2010 |
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Gracilocyon is an extinct genus of miacid carnivoran which existed in United States, in Belgium and in the United Kingdom during the earliest Eocene.[3] It was first named by Thierry Smith and Richard Smith in 2010 and the type species is Gracilocyon winkleri.[3]
References
- ^ Jerry J. Hooker (2010). The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London. Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–162. ISSN 0269-3445.
- ^ Floréal Solé; Emmanuel Gheerbrant; Marc Godinot (2013). "The "miacids" (Carnivoraformes, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France); first occurrence of Vassacyon in Europe". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12 (4): 191–202. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.05.001.
- ^ a b "A new genus of 'miacid' carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (4): 761–764. 2010. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0125.
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