Parapotos Baskin 2003 (procyonid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae

Full reference: J. A. Baskin. 2003. New procyonines from the Hemingfordian and Barstovian of the Gulf Coast and Nevada, including the first fossil record of the Potosini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:125-146

Parent taxon: Potosini according to J. A. Baskin 2004

See also Baskin 2003

Sister taxa: Bassaricyonoides, Potos

Subtaxa: Parapotos tedfordi

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Ecology: scansorial frugivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stephen Prairie (Miocene of Texas)

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