Prodaphaenus

Prodaphaenus; Temporal range: 45.7–42.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ middle Eocene
	part of lower jaw of; Prodaphaenus uintensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Prodaphaenus; Wortman & Matthew, 1899
Type species
	†Prodaphaenus uintensis; (Osborn, 1895)
Synonyms
	synonyms of species: P. uintensis: Miacis uintensis (Osborn, 1895) ; ;

Prodaphaenus ("before Daphoenus") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.^[3]^[4]

References

^ 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
^ H. F. Osborn (1895) "Fossil mammals of the Uinta Basin. Expedition of 1894." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 7(2):71-105
^ 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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Prodaphaenus Temporal range: 45.7–42.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ middle Eocene

part of lower jaw of Prodaphaenus uintensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	†Prodaphaenus Wortman & Matthew, 1899^[1]
Type species
†Prodaphaenus uintensis (Osborn, 1895)^[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of species: P. uintensis: Miacis uintensis (Osborn, 1895)