Uintacyon

Extinct genus of carnivores

Uintacyon
Temporal range: 55.2–39.7 Ma
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early to middle Eocene
lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Uintacyon
Leidy, 1872
Type species
Uintacyon edax
Leidy, 1872
Species
  • 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)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Triacodon (Cope, 1872)[9]
synonyms of species:
  • U. edax:
    • Miacis edax (Cope, 1884)[10]
  • U. massetericus:
    • Didymictis massetericus (Cope, 1882)
    • Viverravus massetericus (Hay, 1902)[11]
  • U. rudis:
    • Uintacyon massetericus rudis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)[12]
  • U. vorax:
    • Miacis vorax (Cope, 1884)

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

  1. ^ M. R. Thorpe (1923.) "Notes on the Bridger (Eocene) Carnivora." American Journal of Science 5(25):23-39
  2. ^ C. L. Gazin (1952.) "The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82
  3. ^ J. Leidy (1872) "Remarks on Fossils from Wyoming." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 24(3):277
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ E. D. Cope (1872) "Second account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-3
  10. ^ E. D. Cope (1884) "Second addition to the knowledge of the Puerco Epoch." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 21(114):309-324
  11. ^ O. P. Hay (1902.) "Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America." Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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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Uintacyon
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