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Tapocyon

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Tapocyon Temporal range: 46.2–39.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle Eocene

Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus

Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scientific 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 Tapo Canyon") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade 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[edit]

^ Stock, Chester (1934). "New Creodonta from the Sespe Upper Eocene, California". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 20 (7): 423–427. Bibcode:1934PNAS...20..423S. doi:10.1073/pnas.20.7.423. PMC 1076436. PMID 16577609.

^ Wesley, G. D.; Flynn, J. J. (2003). "A revision of Tapocyon (Carnivoramorpha), including analysis of the first cranial specimens and identification of a new species". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (4): 769–783. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0769:AROTCI>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4094822. S2CID 85962560.

^ 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

^ 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.

^ 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.

^ 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

^ "Tapocyon robustus". San Diego Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

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