Xinyuictis
Xinyuictis[1] Temporal range: early Eocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Xinyuictis Zheng et al., 1975 |
Species: | †X. tenuis
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Binomial name | |
†Xinyuictis tenuis Zheng et al., 1975
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Xinyuictis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. It contains a species, Xinyuictis tenuis. It was once suggested that the species was the same as Miacis, but it was eventually decided that they were different.
Notes[]
- ^ Heinrich et al., 2008
References[]
- Heinrich, R.E.; Strait, S.G.; Houde, P. (2008). "Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from northwestern Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology. 82 (1): 154–162. doi:10.1666/05-118.1. S2CID 35030667.
Sources[]
- 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. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
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Categories:
- Prehistoric mammals of North America
- Miacids
- Eocene carnivorans
- Fossil taxa described in 1975
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Carnivoraformes
- Prehistoric mammal stubs