Procynodictis
Appearance
Procynodictis Temporal range: ?early to late Eocene
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Genus: | †Procynodictis Wortman and Matthew (1899)
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Procynodictis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. It was first named by Wortman and Matthew in 1899, and contains two species: P. progressus and P. vulpiceps. It was identified as an ancestor of Hesperocyon.
Sources
- zipcodezoo.com
- paleodb.org
- www.pnas.org
- www.sdnhm.org
- The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America By Donald R. Prothero, Robert J. Emry; Published 1996 Cambridge University Press; page 448. ISBN 0-521-43387-8
- Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp. 110–123 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2