Gracilocyon
Gracilocyon Temporal range: Early Eocene | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Miacidae |
Genus: | Gracilocyon Smith & Smith, 2010 |
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Gracilocyon is an extinct genus of miacid carnivoran which existed in USA and in Belgium during the earliest Eocene.[1] It was first named by Thierry Smith and Richard Smith in 2010 and the type species is Gracilocyon winkleri.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thierry Smith and Richard Smith (2010). "A new genus of ‘miacid’ carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (4): 761–764. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0125.