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Uintacyon

Mammalia

Taxonomy
Uintacyon was named by Leidy (1873) [also said to be 1871 and 1872]. Its type is Uintacyon edax. It is the type genus of Uintacyonidae.

It was synonymized subjectively with Miacis by Scott (1892).

It was assigned to Uintacyonidae by Hay (1902); to Caniformia by Flynn and Galiano (1982); to Miacinae by Hooker (1986); to Carnivora by Leidy (1873) and Silcox et al. (2010); to Miacidae by Flynn (1998), Friscia and Rasmussen (2010) and Rose et al. (2012); and to Carnivoraformes by Solé (2014) and Solé et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Uintacyon Leidy p. 118
1902Uintacyon Hay p. 759
1982Uintacyon Flynn and Galiano p. 50
1986Uintacyon Hooker p. 336
1998Uintacyon Flynn
2010Uintacyon Friscia and Rasmussen p. 60
2010Uintacyon Silcox et al.
2012Uintacyon Rose et al.
2014Uintacyon Solé
2016Uintacyon Solé et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
genusUintacyon

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. †Uintacyon Leidy 1873
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Uintacyon acutus Thorpe 1923
Uintacyon asodes Gazin 1952
Uintacyon gingerichi Heinrich et al. 2008
Uintacyon hookeri Solé 2014
Uintacyon jugulans Matthew 1909
Uintacyon rudis Rose 1981
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available