Limnocyoninae

Limnocyoninae
Temporal range: Late Paleocene to Late Eocene
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
Genera
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Limnocyonidae (Gunnell, 1998)
  • Limnocyoninae (Wortman, 1902)
  • Limnocyonini (Van Valen, 1966)
  • Limnocyononae (Lavrov, 1999)
  • Limnocyontidae (Savage, 1973)

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.