Palaearctonyx Temporal range: Eocene
early to middle | |
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part of upper jaw of Palaearctonyx meadi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Palaearctonyx Matthew, 1909[1] |
Type species | |
†Palaearctonyx meadi Matthew, 1909
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Palaearctonyx ("ancient bear's claw") is an extinct genus of omnivorous placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[2][3][4][5]
Palaearctonyx was named by Matthew in 1909 and it was assigned to family Miacidae. Later, it was assigned to Caniformia by Flynn and Galiano in 1982,[6] and then back to Miacidae by Flynn in 1998.[4] From 2010 and later, this genus was assigned to clade Carnivoraformes.[7][8][9]