Tapocyon

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Tapocyon
Temporal range: 46.2–39.7 
Ma
 middle Eocene
Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus
Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade:
Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade:
Carnivoraformes
Genus: †Tapocyon
Stock, 1934[1]
Type species
†Tapocyon robustus
Peterson, 1919
Species
  • †T. dawsonae (Wesley & Flynn, 2003)[2]
  • †T. robustus (Peterson, 1919)[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • T. robustus:
    • Miacis robustus (Gazin, 1956)[4]
    • Prodaphaenus robustus (Peterson, 1919)
    • Tapocyon occidentalis (Stock, 1934)
    • Uintacyon robustus

Tapocyon ("dog from

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

  1. PMID 16577609
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  2. S2CID 85962560
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  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9
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  6. ISBN 9780521355193
  7. ^ "Tapocyon robustus". San Diego Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
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