Uintacyon

Taxobox
name = "Uintacyon"Heinrich et al., 2008]
fossil_range = late Paleocene to middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivoramorpha
familia = †Miacidae
genus = †"Uintacyon"
genus_authority = Leidy, 1872
type_species = †"Uintacyon edax"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* †"U. asodes"
* †"U. bathygnathous"
* †"U. edax"
* †"U. gingerichi"
* †"U. jugulans"
* †"U. massetericus"
* †"U. rudis"
* †"U. vorax"

"Uintacyon" is an extinct genus of Miacidae. There are at least two species in the genus; "Uintacyon rudis" and "Uintacyon gingerichi", the latter being recently discovered.

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*Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp.110-123 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 0-521-35519-2
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3790/is_200801/ai_n21279546/pg_13 findarticles.com]
* [http://www.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=66362 www.taxonomy.nl]
* [http://www.jstor.org/pss/86316 www.jstor.org]