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
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Species | |
Synonyms | |
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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]