Vassacyon bowni Heinrich et al. 2008 (placental)

Mammalia - Ferae

Full reference: R. E. Heinrich, S. G. Strait, and P. Houde. 2008. Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Northwestern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 82(1):154-162

Belongs to Vassacyon according to F. Solé et al. 2016

See also Heinrich et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Vassacyon prieuri, Vassacyon promicrodon, Vassacyon taxidiotis

Type specimen: UCMP 216164, a tooth (right [upper] M2). Its type locality is Castle Gardens, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial mudstone in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Castle Gardens

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