Gracilocyon

Gracilocyon is an extinct genus of miacid carnivoran which existed in United States, in Belgium and in the United Kingdom during the earliest Eocene.[3] It was first named by Thierry Smith and Richard Smith in 2010 and the type species is Gracilocyon winkleri.[3]

Gracilocyon
Temporal range: Early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: †Gracilocyon
Smith & Smith, 2010
Species
  • G. winkleri (Gingerich, 1983) (type)
  • G. rosei (Heinrich et al., 2008)
  • G. rundlei (Hooker, 2010)[1][2]
  • G. solei Smith & Smith, 2010
Synonyms
  • Miacis rosei Heinrich et al., 2008
  • Miacis rundlei Hooker, 2010
  • Miacis winkleri Gingerich, 1983

References
  1. Jerry J. Hooker (2010). The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London. Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–162. ISSN 0269-3445.
  2. Floréal Solé; Emmanuel Gheerbrant; Marc Godinot (2013). "The "miacids" (Carnivoraformes, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France); first occurrence of Vassacyon in Europe". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12 (4): 191–202. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.05.001.
  3. Thierry Smith and Richard Smith (2010). "A new genus of 'miacid' carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (4): 761–764. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0125.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)


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