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Thinocyon

Mammalia - Creodonta

Taxonomy

Thinocyon was named by Marsh (1872).

It was synonymized subjectively with Limnocyon by Wortman (1902).

It was assigned to Miacidae by Scott (1892); to Uintacyonidae by Hay (1902); to Limnocyonini by Van Valen (1967); to Limnocyonidae by Marsh (1872), Matthew (1909), Gazin (1976), Gunnell (1998) and Morlo et al. (2000); and to Limnocyoninae by Morlo and Gunnell (2005), Solé (2013) and Borths et al. (2016).

Species

T. sichowensis, T. velox (syn. T. cledensis, T. mustelinus, T. wyomingensis, T. minimus)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1872	Thinocyon Marsh
1892	Thinocyon Scott p. 321
1902	Thinocyon Hay p. 761
1909	Thinocyon Matthew
1967	Thinocyon Van Valen
1976	Thinocyon Gazin
1998	Thinocyon Gunnell
2000	Thinocyon Morlo et al.
2005	Thinocyon Morlo and Gunnell p. 251
2013	Thinocyon Solé
2016	Thinocyon Borths et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Ferae	()
order	Creodonta	()
order	Hyaenodonta	()
subfamily	Limnocyoninae
genus	Thinocyon

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Thinocyon Marsh 1872

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†Thinocyon sichowensis Chow 1975

†Thinocyon velox Marsh 1872

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Invalid names: Thinocyon cledensis Matthew 1909 [synonym], Thinocyon minimus Matthew 1909 [synonym], Thinocyon mustelinus Matthew 1909 [synonym], Thinocyon wyomingensis Morlo et al. 2000 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingg

Diet:

carnivoreg

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Comments:

hypercarnivore (Morlo and Gunnell 2005) with a postcranial skeleton that has "remarkable similarity" to Mustela vison, which is ground dwelling and partially aquatic (Gebo and Rose 1993)g

Created:

2006-04-21 22:33:37

Modified:

2011-04-24 20:46:16

Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Morlo and Gunnell 2005, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Bridgerian or 47.80000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections (23 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian	50.3 - 46.2	USA (Wyoming)	T. cledensis (223507) T. mustelinus (129895) T. sp. (15837 16429) T. velox (16100 16104 16108 16114 16115 16201 16228 16276 16277 16284 16306 16309 16441 223458 223473 223474 223482 223508)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	China (Shandong)	T. sichowensis (175583)