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Maocyon
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| Maocyon Temporal range: Late Eocene
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| skull of Maocyon peregrinus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyainailourinae |
| Genus: | †Maocyon Averianov et al., 2023[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Maocyon peregrinus Averianov et al., 2023[1]
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Maocyon ("dog from Maoming") is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Hyainailourinae within paraphyletic family Hyainailouridae, that lived during the late Eocene in China.[1][2] It is a monotypic genus that contains the species M. peregrinus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (27 February 2023). "A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819. ISSN 2296-701X.
- ^ Sheng, J.; Bi, S.; Li, Q. (2024). "A new hyainailourid (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of Mianchi of Henan, China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 63 (3): 386–403. doi:10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024004.