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Extinct genus of carnivores
Tapocyon ("dog from
Tapo Canyon") is an
extinct
genus of placental mammals from clade
Carnivoraformes, that lived in
North America during the middle
Eocene.
[5]
[6] Tapocyon was about the size of a
coyote and is believed to have been a good climber that spent a lot of time in trees.
[7]
References
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^ Stock, Chester (1934).
"New Creodonta from the Sespe Upper Eocene, California". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 20 (7): 423–427.
Bibcode:
1934PNAS...20..423S.
doi:
10.1073/pnas.20.7.423.
PMC
1076436.
PMID
16577609.
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^ Wesley, G. D.; Flynn, J. J. (2003). "A revision of Tapocyon (Carnivoramorpha), including analysis of the first cranial specimens and identification of a new species". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (4): 769–783.
doi:
10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0769:AROTCI>2.0.CO;2.
JSTOR
4094822.
S2CID
85962560.
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^ O. A. Peterson (1919.)
"Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912." Annals of Carnegie Museum 12(2):40-168
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^ Gazin, C. L. (1956.)
"The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Upper Eocene Strata in the Northeastern Part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming, Pt. 2, The Mammalian Fauna of the Badwater Area." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 131(8):16–35.
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^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997).
Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-11012-9.
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^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.)
"Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
ISBN
9780521355193
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^
"Tapocyon robustus". San Diego Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
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