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Vassacyon
Temporal range: 57.2–50.5  Ma late Paleocene to early Eocene
Skull of Vassacyon promicrodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Vassacyon
Matthew, 1909 [1]
Type species
Vassacyon promicrodon
Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
  • V. bowni (Heinrich, 2008) [2]
  • V. prieuri (Solé, 2016) [3]
  • V. promicrodon (Wortman & Matthew, 1899) [4]
  • V. taxidiotis (Solé, 2013) [5]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • V. promicrodon:
    • Prodaphaenus promicrodon (Wortman, 1901) [6]
    • Uintacyon promicrodon (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)

Vassacyon (" wasatchian dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Paleocene to early Eocene. [7] [8] [9] It is considered the largest of the early Eocene mammals.

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Thierry; De Bast, Eric; Codrea, Vlad; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel (2016). "New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2): e1082480. Bibcode: 2016JVPal..36E2480S. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480. ISSN  0272-4634. S2CID  87537565.
  4. ^ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
  5. ^ 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. Bibcode: 2013CRPal..12..191S. doi: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.05.001.
  6. ^ J. L. Wortman (1901.) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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  0-521-35519-2
  9. ^ Spaulding, Michelle; Flynn, John J.; Stucky, Richard K. (2010). "A new basal Carnivoramorphan (Mammalia) from the 'Bridger B' (Black's Fork member, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian Nalma, middle Eocene) of Wyoming, USA". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 815–832. Bibcode: 2010Palgy..53..815S. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00963.x. S2CID  128700977.