Limnocyoninae
| Limnocyoninae | |
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| Skull of Limnocyon verus | |
| lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Limnocyonoidea |
| Clade: | †Limnocyoninae Wortman, 1902 |
| Type genus | |
| †Limnocyon Marsh, 1872
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Limnocyoninae ("swamp dogs") is a clade of extinct predatory mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from late Paleocene to late Eocene deposits in North America and Asia. Limnocyonines had only two molars in the upper and lower dentition.