Uintacyon ("dog of the Uinta Mountains")[13] is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[14][15]
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Uintacyon
Temporal range: 55.2–39.7 Ma early to middle Eocene |
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| lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Mammalia |
| Clade: |
Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: |
Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: |
Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: |
†Uintacyon
Leidy, 1872 |
| Type species |
†Uintacyon edax
Leidy, 1872 |
| Species |
- †U. acutus (Thorpe, 1923)[1]
- †U. asodes (Gazin, 1952)[2]
- †U. edax (Leidy, 1872)[3]
- †U. gingerichi (Heinrich, 2008)[4]
- †U. hookeri (Solé, 2014)[5]
- †U. jugulans (Matthew, 1909)[6]
- †U. massetericus (Cope, 1882)[7]
- †U. rudis (Rose, 1981)[8]
- †U. vorax (Leidy, 1872)
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| Synonyms |
- Triacodon (Cope, 1872)[9]
- Miacis edax (Cope, 1884)[10]
- Didymictis massetericus (Cope, 1882)
- Viverravus massetericus (Hay, 1902)[11]
- Uintacyon massetericus rudis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)[12]
- Miacis vorax (Cope, 1884)
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