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Vassacyon promicrodon
Taxonomy
Uintacyon promicrodon was named by Wortman and Matthew (1899). Its type specimen is AMNH 83, a mandible (an almost complete lower jaw (No. 83), in which the sectorial and fourth premolar are in good state of preservation; portions of the third premolar and second m), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Prodaphaenus promicrodon by Wortman (1901); it was recombined as Vassacyon promicrodon by Matthew (1909), Matthew and Granger (1915), Gingerich (1983) and Solé et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Prodaphaenus promicrodon by Wortman (1901); it was recombined as Vassacyon promicrodon by Matthew (1909), Matthew and Granger (1915), Gingerich (1983) and Solé et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1899 | Uintacyon promicrodon Wortman and Matthew p. 111 |
| 1901 | Prodaphaenus promicrodon Wortman |
| 1902 | Uintacyon promicrodon Hay p. 760 |
| 1909 | Vassacyon promicrodon Matthew |
| 1915 | Vassacyon promicrodon Matthew and Granger |
| 1983 | Vassacyon promicrodon Gingerich |
| 2016 | Vassacyon promicrodon Solé et al. |
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†Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman and Matthew 1899
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available