Procynodictis

Procynodictis; Temporal range: 50.5–39.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to middle Eocene
	lower jaw of Procynodictis vulpiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Procynodictis; Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Type species
	†Procynodictis vulpiceps; Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
	†P. progressus (Stock, 1935); †P. vulpiceps (Wortman & Matthew, 1899);
Synonyms
	synonyms of genus: Plesiomiacis (Simpson, 1945) ; synonyms of species: P. progressus: Plesiomiacis progressus (Simpson, 1945) ; Viverravus progressus (Stock, 1935) ; ;

Procynodictis ("before Cynodictis") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ Stock, Chester (1935). "Plesiomiacis, a New Creodont from the Sespe Upper Eocene, California". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 21 (2): 119–122. Bibcode:1935PNAS...21..119S. doi:10.1073/pnas.21.2.119. PMC 1076543. PMID 16587935.
^ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
^ ^a ^b Simpson, George Gaylord (1945). "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 85: 350. hdl:2246/1104.
^ Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry (1996.) The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America ISBN 978-0-521-43387-7
^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9.
^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521355193

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Procynodictis Temporal range: 50.5–39.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to middle Eocene

lower jaw of Procynodictis vulpiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Procynodictis Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Type species
†Procynodictis vulpiceps Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Species
†P. progressus (Stock, 1935)^[1] †P. vulpiceps (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)^[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Plesiomiacis (Simpson, 1945)^[3] synonyms of species: P. progressus: Plesiomiacis progressus (Simpson, 1945)^[3] Viverravus progressus (Stock, 1935)