Vassacyon | |
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Skull ofVassacyon promicrodon | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Vassacyon Matthew, 1909[1] |
Type species | |
†Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman & Matthew, 1899 | |
Species | |
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Vassacyon ("wasatchian dog") is anextinctgenus of placental mammals from cladeCarnivoraformes, that lived inNorth America andEurope from the latePaleocene to earlyEocene.[7][8][9] It is considered the largest of the early Eocene mammals.
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