Chailicyon

Chailicyon
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Carnivoramorpha
Family: Miacidae
Genus: †Chailicyon
Chow (1975)

Chailicyon is an extinct genus in the basal Carnivoramorph family Miacidae that lived in Asia during the Middle to Late Eocene.[1]

Taxonomy

Chailicyon was named by Chow (1975). It was assigned to Miacidae by Carroll (1988).

Sources

  1. ↑ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
  • museum03.museumwww.naturekundmuseum-berlin.de
  • The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America by Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry ISBN 0-521-43387-8


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