Tapocyon ("dog from Tapo Canyon") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.[5][6] Tapocyon was about the size of a coyote and is believed to have been a good climber that spent a lot of time in trees.[7]
| Tapocyon Temporal range: middle Eocene
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| Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus | |
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| Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: | †Tapocyon Stock, 1934[1] |
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| †Tapocyon robustus Peterson, 1919
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References
edit- ^ Stock, Chester (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.
- ^ Wesley, G. D.; Flynn, J. J. (2003). "A revision of Tapocyon (Carnivoramorpha), including analysis of the first cranial specimens and identification of a new species". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (4): 769–783. Bibcode:2003JPal...77..769W. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0769:AROTCI>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4094822. S2CID 85962560.
- ^ O. A. Peterson (1919.) "Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912." Annals of Carnegie Museum 12(2):40-168
- ^ Gazin, C. L. (1956.) "The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Upper Eocene Strata in the Northeastern Part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming, Pt. 2, The Mammalian Fauna of the Badwater Area." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 131(8):16–35.
- ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9.
- ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." 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 9780521355193
- ^ "Tapocyon robustus". San Diego Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
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