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Extinct genus of carnivores
Uintacyon
Temporal range: 55.2–39.7
Ma early to middle
Eocene
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lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Clade:
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Pan-Carnivora
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Clade:
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Carnivoramorpha
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Clade:
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Carnivoraformes
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Genus:
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Uintacyon
Leidy, 1872
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Type species
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†Uintacyon edax
Leidy, 1872
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Species
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- †U. acutus (Thorpe, 1923)
[1]
- †U. asodes (Gazin, 1952)
[2]
- †U. edax (Leidy, 1872)
[3]
- †U. gingerichi (Heinrich, 2008)
[4]
- †U. hookeri (Solé, 2014)
[5]
- †U. jugulans (Matthew, 1909)
[6]
- †U. massetericus (Cope, 1882)
[7]
- †U. rudis (Rose, 1981)
[8]
- †U. vorax (Leidy, 1872)
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Synonyms
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- Triacodon (Cope, 1872)
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- Miacis edax (Cope, 1884)
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- Didymictis massetericus (Cope, 1882)
- Viverravus massetericus (Hay, 1902)
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- Uintacyon massetericus rudis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
[12]
- Miacis vorax (Cope, 1884)
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Uintacyon ("dog of the
Uinta Mountains")
[13] is an
extinct
paraphyletic
genus of placental mammals from clade
Carnivoraformes, that lived in
North America from the early to middle
Eocene.
[14]
[15]
References
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^ M. R. Thorpe (1923.)
"Notes on the Bridger (Eocene) Carnivora." American Journal of Science 5(25):23-39
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^ C. L. Gazin (1952.)
"The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82
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^ J. Leidy (1872)
"Remarks on Fossils from Wyoming." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 24(3):277
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^ Heinrich, R. E.; Strait, S. G.; Houde, P. (2008).
"Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from northwestern Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology. 82 (1): 154–162.
Bibcode:
2008JPal...82..154H.
doi:
10.1666/05-118.1.
S2CID
35030667.
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^ Solé, Floréal (2014).
"New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 963–978.
Bibcode:
2014Palgy..57..963S.
doi:
10.1111/pala.12097.
ISSN
1475-4983.
S2CID
129314381.
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^ W. D. Matthew (1909.)
"The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
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^ E. D. Cope (1882.)
"Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20(111):139-197
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^ K. D. Rose (1981.)
"The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197
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^ E. D. Cope (1872)
"Second account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-3
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^ E. D. Cope (1884)
"Second addition to the knowledge of the Puerco Epoch." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 21(114):309-324
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^ O. P. Hay (1902.)
"Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America." Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868
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^ W. D. Matthew and W. Granger (1915.)
"A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(1):1-103
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^ Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904).
Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U.S. Government Printing Office.
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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. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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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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ichnotaxa of Hyaenodonta | |
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