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Extinct family of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.[6] Prolimnocyon chowi is the earliest known member of the hyaenodontid family Limnocyonidae.[7]
This article possibly contains original research. (November 2023) |
Prolimnocyon late | |
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lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Limnocyoninae |
Genus: | †Prolimnocyon Matthew, 1915 |
Type species | |
†Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew, 1915 | |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
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