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Prolimnocyon

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Prolimnocyon Temporal range: 57.0–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N late Paleocene to middle Eocene

lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Family:	†Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:	†Limnocyoninae
Genus:	†Prolimnocyon Matthew, 1915
Type species
†Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew, 1915
Species
†P. antiquus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)^[1] †P. atavus (Matthew & Granger, 1915) †P. chowi (Meng, 1998)^[2] †P. eerius (Gingerich, 1989)^[3] †P. haematus (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)^[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of species: P. antiquus: Prolimnocyon elisabethae (Gazin, 1952)^[5]

Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genusoflimnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.^[6] Prolimnocyon chowi is the earliest known member of the hyaenodontid family Limnocyonidae.^[7]

References[edit]

^ 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

^ J. Meng, R. J. Zhai and A. R. Wyss (1998.) "The late Paleocene Bayan Ulan fauna of Inner Mongolia, China." Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:148-185

^ P. D. Gingerich (1989.) "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97

^ P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch (1989.) "Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391

^ C. L. Gazin (1952.) "The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82

^ "Fossilworks: Prolimnocyon". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

^ Rose, Kenneth D. (2009). The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8018-9221-9.

Mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Clade: Scrotifera
Grandorder: Ferungulata
Mirorder: Ferae

Pan-Carnivora

Carnivoramorpha	See Carnivoramorpha below ↓
†Hyaenodonta	See Hyaenodonta below ↓
†Oxyaenodonta	See Oxyaenodonta below ↓
†Wyolestidae	†Wyolestes
†Simidectes †Altacreodus †Tinerhodon

†Hyaenodonta

†Afro‑Arabian
clade

†Maocyon/Orienspterodon clade

†Maocyon
†Orienspterodon

†Apterodontinae

†Apterodon
†Quasiapterodon

†Hyainailourinae

†Akhnatenavus clade

†Hyainailourini

†Prionogalidae

†Teratodontinae

other representatives

†Arfia clade

†Arfia

†Galecyon clade

†Galecyon

†Lahimia clade

†Boualitomus
†Lahimia

†Limnocyonidae

†Iridodon
†Limnocyon
†Oxyaenodon
†Prolaena
†Prolimnocyon
†Thinocyon

†Sinopidae

†Acarictis
†Prototomus
†Sinopa

ichnotaxa
of Hyaenodonta

†Oxyaenodonta

†Oxyaenidae

†Machaeroidinae	†Apataelurus †Diegoaelurus †Isphanatherium †Machaeroides
†Oxyaeninae	†Argillotherium †Dipsalidictis †Malfelis †Oxyaena †Patriofelis †Protopsalis †Sarkastodon
†Palaeonictinae	†Ambloctonus †Dipsalodon †Palaeonictis
†Tytthaeninae	†Tytthaena