Xinyuictis

Taxobox
name = "Xinyuictis"Heinrich et al., 2008]
fossil_range = early Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivoramorpha
familia = †Miacidae
genus = †"Xinyuictis"
genus_authority = Zheng et al., 1975
species = †"X. tenuis"
binomial = †"Xinyuictis tenuis"
binomial_authority = Zheng et al., 1975

Xinyuictis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. It contains a species, "Xinyuictis tenuis". It was once suggested that the species was the same as Miacis, but it was eventually decided that they were different.

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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://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Xinyuictis_Genus.asp zipcodezoo.com]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3790/is_200801/ai_n21279546/pg_3 findarticles.com]
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/carnivora/carnivoramorpha.html www.helsinki.fi]