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Procyon lotor (raccoon)
Taxonomy
Ursus lotor was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Procyon lotor by Leidy (1860), Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Wilson (1967), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Marmi et al. (2004), Albright et al. (2019), Eshelman et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Procyon lotor by Leidy (1860), Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Wilson (1967), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Marmi et al. (2004), Albright et al. (2019), Eshelman et al. (2025).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Ursus lotor Linnaeus p. 48 |
| 1848 | Procyon priscus Leconte p. 106 |
| 1860 | Procyon lotor Leidy p. 115 |
| 1902 | Procyon lotor Hay p. 764 |
| 1902 | Procyon priscus Hay p. 765 |
| 1906 | Procyon simus Gidley |
| 1911 | Procyon lotor Thomas p. 140 |
| 1929 | Procyon nanus Simpson |
| 1967 | Procyon lotor Wilson p. 211 |
| 1980 | Procyon lotor Kurten and Anderson p. 175 |
| 1998 | Procyon lotor Hulbert, Jr. and Pratt |
| 2004 | Procyon lotor Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2019 | Procyon lotor Albright et al. p. 177 |
| 2025 | Procyon lotor Eshelman et al. p. 129 |
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Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 [raccoon]
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Invalid names: Procyon nanus Simpson 1929 [synonym], Procyon priscus Leconte 1848 [synonym], Procyon simus Gidley 1906 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Van Valkenburgh 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (81 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blancan | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (98320) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (98313) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Procyon lotor (65405) | |
| Pleistocene | Mexico (Jalisco) | Procyon lotor (20285) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Illinois) | Procyon priscus (87059) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (227368) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Procyon lotor (74240 74246) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (West Virginia) | Procyon lotor (79660) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (20289 20520) Procyon sp. (20400) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Procyon lotor (20390) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Arkansas) | Procyon lotor (20290) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (West Virginia) | Procyon lotor (20555) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Procyon lotor (104662) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (20440 20491 195112) | |
| Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Procyon lotor (20495) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Texas) | Procyon lotor (225289) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (California) | Procyon lotor (192633) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (South Carolina) | Procyon lotor (79757 206993) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Procyon lotor (63425 63427) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (California) | Procyon lotor (155393) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Procyon lotor (93250) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Texas) | Procyon lotor (93527) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Procyon lotor (82258 103991 104709 104758 124089) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Procyon lotor (13066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (Texas) | Procyon lotor (93103) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Canada (Alberta) | Procyon lotor (20615) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (154722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Missouri) | Procyon lotor (93379) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Procyon lotor (20604 20613) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Michigan) | Procyon lotor (200485) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (34269 74292 154804 154805) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (20636 20647 20653) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Idaho) | Procyon lotor (20569) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Procyon lotor (93332 123868) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Procyon lotor (154921) Procyon lotor, Procyon nanus (154771) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Procyon lotor (104034 104044 104672 104684 104689 104691) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Missouri) | Procyon lotor (63563 63565 63567 63568 63569 63570 63571) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Tennessee) | Procyon lotor (63429) | |
| Holocene | USA (Arizona) | Procyon lotor (233123) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Ontario) | Procyon lotor (221863) | |
| Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Procyon lotor (104675 104690) | |
| Holocene | USA (Ohio) | Procyon lotor (195062 195066 195067 195069) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Quebec) | Procyon lotor (221970 224189) | |
| Holocene | USA (Georgia) | Procyon lotor (152113) | |
| Holocene | Panama | Procyon lotor (21691) | |
| Holocene | USA (Texas) | Procyon simus (79584) |