Procynodictis

Procynodictis; Temporal range: ?early to late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Family:	†Miacidae
Genus:	†Procynodictis; Wortman and Matthew (1899)
Type species
	†Procynodictis vulpiceps;
Species
	†P. progressus; †P. vulpiceps;

Procynodictis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. It was first named by and William Diller Matthew in 1899, and contains two species: P. progressus and P. vulpiceps. It was identified as an ancestor of Hesperocyon.

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Further reading[]

Stock, C. (1 July 1934). "New Creodonta from the Sespe Upper Eocene, California". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 20 (7): 423–427. Bibcode:1934PNAS...20..423S. doi:10.1073/pnas.20.7.423. PMC 1076436. PMID 16577609.
The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America By Donald R. Prothero, Robert J. Emry; Published 1996 Cambridge University Press; page 448. ISBN 0-521-43387-8
Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp. 110–123 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2

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