Pyrocyon
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| Pyrocyon Temporal range: Wasatchian
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| parts of upper and lower jaws of Pyrocyon strenuus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Genus: | †Pyrocyon Gingerich & Deustch, 1989 |
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| †Pyrocyon dioctetus Gingerich & Deustch, 1989
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Pyrocyon ("fire dog") is an extinct genus of small carnivorous placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene. Fossils of Pyrocyon have been found in Wyoming and Colorado.[6] Weight of Pyrocyon dioctetus has been estimated at around 2.6 kilograms.[7]
References
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- ^ E. D. Cope. (1875.) "Systematic Catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico, Collected in 1874." Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Engineer Department, U. S. Army 5-37
- ^ A. V. Lavrov (1999.) "Adaptive Radiation of Hyaenodontinae (Creodonta, Hyaenodontidae) of Asia." in 6th Congress of the Theriological Society, Moscow, April 13–16, p. 138 [in Russian].
- ^ E. D. Cope (1882.) "Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20(111):139-197
- ^ L. Van Valen (1965.) "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)." Palaeontology 8(4):638-665
- ^ Paleobiology Database: Pyrocyon
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