Prolimnocyon

Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonin hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.^[7] Prolimnocyon chowi is one of the earliest known member of the order Hyaenodonta and clade Limnocyoninae.^[8]

Prolimnocyon Temporal range: 57.0–49.2 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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Clade:	†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] †P. sp. [South Pass, Green River Basin, Wyoming] (Muldoon, 2018)[5]
Synonyms
synonyms of species: P. antiquus: Prolimnocyon elisabethae (Gazin, 1952)[6]