Limnocyon

Limnocyon ("swamp dog") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonin hyaenodonts that lived in North America during the middle Eocene. Fossils of this animal have been found in California, Utah and Wyoming.^[7]

Limnocyon Temporal range: 50.3–42.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle Eocene
Skull of Limnocyon verus
Life Restoration of L. verus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Clade:	†Limnocyoninae
Genus:	†Limnocyon Marsh, 1872
Type species
†Limnocyon verus Marsh, 1872
Species
†L. cuspidens (Morlo & Gunnell, 2005)[1] †L. potens (Matthew, 1909)[2] †L. verus (Marsh, 1872)[3]
Synonyms[4]
synonyms of genus: Telmatocyon (Marsh, 1899) synonyms of species: L. potens: Limnocyon douglassi (Peterson, 1919)[5] Limnocyon protens (Kay, 1957) L. verus: Limnocyon riparius (Marsh, 1872) Oxyaenodon wortmani (Van Valen, 1966)[6] Sinopa vera (Matthew, 1899) Sinopa verus (Matthew, 1901) Stypolophus verus Telmatocyon riparius (Marsh, 1899) Triacodon grandis (Marsh, 1872) Viverravus riparius (Marsh, 1872)

Description

Limnocyon was a small omnivorous hyaenodontid, with some estimates placing it at less than 1 kg in weight.^[7] Like other limnocyonins, Limnocyon had only two molars in the upper and lower dentition.^[1]