Galecyon

Galecyon
Temporal range: early Eocene
lower jaw of Galecyon mordax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Genus: †Galecyon
Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989
Type species
†Galecyon mordax
Matthew & Granger, 1915
Species
  • †G. chronius (Zack, 2011)
  • †G. gallus (Solé, 2013)
  • †G. mordax (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  • †G. morloi (Smith & Smith, 2001)
  • †G. peregrinus (Zack, 2011)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Gallecyon (Lavrov, 1999)
synonyms of species:
  • G. mordax:
    • Paeneprolimnocyon mordax (Delson, 1971)
    • Prototomus mordax (Van Valen, 1965)
    • Sinopa mordax (Matthew & Granger, 1915)

Galecyon ("polecat-like dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in Europe and North America (found in the Clarks Fork and Powder River basins of Wyoming) during the early Eocene.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.