Palaearctonyx

Palaearctonyx ("ancient bear's claw") is an extinct genus of omnivorous placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.^[2][3][4][5]

Palaearctonyx Temporal range: 50.5–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ early to middle Eocene
part of upper jaw of Palaearctonyx meadi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Palaearctonyx Matthew, 1909[1]
Type species
†Palaearctonyx meadi Matthew, 1909

Classification and phylogeny

Classification

Palaearctonyx was named by Matthew in 1909 and it was assigned to family Miacidae. Later, it was assigned to Caniformia by Flynn and Galiano in 1982,^[6] and then back to Miacidae by Flynn in 1998.^[4] From 2010 and later, this genus was assigned to clade Carnivoraformes.^[7][8][9]