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Extinct genus of carnivores
Gracilocyon
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teeth of Gracilocyon solei
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teeth and lower jaw fragment of Gracilocyon winkleri
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Clade:
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Pan-Carnivora
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Clade:
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Carnivoramorpha
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Clade:
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Carnivoraformes
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Genus:
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Gracilocyon Smith & Smith,
2010
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Type species
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†Gracilocyon winkleri
Gingerich, 1983
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Species
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- †G. igniculus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
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- †G. rosei (Heinrich, 2008)
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- †G. rundlei (Hooker, 2010)
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- †G. solei (Smith & Smith, 2010)
[1]
- †G. winkleri (Gingerich, 1983)
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Synonyms
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- Grucihcyon (Smith & Smith, 2010)
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- Miacis igniculus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
- Miacis rosei (Heinrich, 2008)
- Miacis rundlei (Hooker, 2010)
- Miacis solei (Smith & Smith, 2010)
- Grucihcyon winkleri (Smith & Smith, 2010)
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- Miacis winkleri (Gingerich, 1983)
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Gracilocyon ("gracile dog") is an
extinct
paraphyletic
genus of placental mammals from clade
Carnivoraformes, that lived in
North America and
Europe from the late
Paleocene to the early
Eocene.
[1]
See also
References
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e Thierry Smith; Richard Smith (2010).
"A new genus of 'miacid' carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (4): 761–764.
doi:
10.4202/app.2009.0125.
S2CID
12610422.
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^ K. Christopher Beard; Mary R. Dawson (2009).
"Early Wasatchian Mammals of the Red Hot Local Fauna, Uppermost Tuscahoma Formation, Lauderdale County, Mississippi". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 78 (3): 193–243.
doi:
10.2992/007.078.0301.
S2CID
86281527.
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^ Heinrich, R. E.; Strait, S. G.; Houde, P. (2008).
"Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from northwestern Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology. 82 (1): 154–162.
Bibcode:
2008JPal...82..154H.
doi:
10.1666/05-118.1.
S2CID
35030667.
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^ Jerry J. Hooker (2010).
""The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London"". Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. 164 (634). Palaeontographical Society: 1–162.
Bibcode:
2010MPalS.164....1H.
doi:
10.1080/25761900.2022.12131814.
ISSN
0269-3445.
S2CID
250702284.
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^ P. D. Gingerich (1983)
"Systematics of Early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 26(10):197-225
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