Alternative combinations: Prodaphaenus promicrodon, Uintacyon promicrodon
Full reference: J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew. 1899. The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
Belongs to Vassacyon according to F. Solé et al. 2016
See also Gingerich 1983, Hay 1902, Matthew 1909, Matthew and Granger 1915 and Wortman and Matthew 1899
Sister taxa: Vassacyon bowni, Vassacyon prieuri, Vassacyon taxidiotis
Type specimen: AMNH 83, a mandible (an almost complete lower jaw (No83), in which the sectorial and fourth premolar are in good state of preservation; portions of the third premolar and second m).
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (26: Wyoming collections)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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