Lambertocyon
Extinct genus of mammals
Lambertocyon Temporal range: Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Arctocyonidae |
Genus: | †Lambertocyon Gingerich, 1979 |
Type species | |
Lambertocyon eximius | |
Species | |
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Lambertocyon is a genus of ungulates from western North America. Three species are known, making their last appearance in the Late Paleocene Clarkforkian stage.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Gingerich, P. D. (1979). "Lambertocyon eximius, a new arctocyonid (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of western North America". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (3): 524–529. JSTOR 1303992.
- ^ Archibald, J. David (1998). "Archaic ungulates ("Condylarthra")". In Christine M. Janis; Kathleen M. Scott; Louis L. Jacobs (eds.). Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals. Cambridge University Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-521-35519-3.
- ^ Michael O. Woodburne, ed. (2012). "Paleocene Biochronology: The Puercan Through Clarkforkian Land Mammal Ages". Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Biostratigraphy and Geochronology. Columbia University Press. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-0-231-50378-5.
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