Tapocyon
Tapocyon ("dog from Tapo Canyon") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene. Tapocyon was about the size of a coyote and is believed to have been a good climber that spent a lot of time in trees.
| Tapocyon Temporal range: middle Eocene | |
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| Life restoration of Tapocyon robustus | |
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| Replica of T. robustus lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: | †Tapocyon Stock, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| †Tapocyon robustus Peterson, 1919 | |
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References
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