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Uintacyon
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
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lower jaw of Uintacyon asodes | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Uintacyon Leidy, 1872 |
Type species | |
†Uintacyon edax Leidy, 1872 | |
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