Chailicyon
| Chailicyon Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| 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[]
- ^ 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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- Miacids
- Eocene carnivorans
- Eocene mammals of Asia
- Prehistoric placental genera
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