Tapocyon

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]

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
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