Chriacus

Chriacus
Temporal range:
Life reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Arctocyonia
Family: †Arctocyonidae
Genus: †Chriacus
Cope, 1883
Type species
†Lipodectes pelvidens
Cope, 1881
Species
  • †C. badgleyi Gingerich, 1989
  • †C. baldwini (Cope, 1882)
  • †C. calenancus Van Valen, 1978
  • †C. gallinae Matthew & Granger, 1915
  • †C. katrinae Van Valen, 1978
  • †C. metocometi Van Valen, 1978
  • †C. oconostotae Van Valen, 1978
  • †C. orthogonius Russell, 1929
  • †C. pelvidens (Cope, 1881)
  • †C. punitor (Simpson, 1935)

Chriacus is an extinct genus of placental mammals that lived in what is now North America from the Paleocene and early Eocene epochs. In life, members of the genus may have looked something like a kinkajou or binturong, though they were not closely related to any living mammal. Like many early Cenozoic mammals, its relationships are uncertain, with possible affinities to ungulates or Ferae (carnivorans and their relatives).

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