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Chailicyon

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Chailicyon
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Genus: Chailicyon
Chow (1975)

Chailicyon is an extinct genus in the basal Carnivoramorph family Miacidae that lived in Asia during the Middle to Late Eocene.[1]

Taxonomy

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Chailicyon was named by Chow (1975). It was assigned to Miacidae by Carroll (1988).

Sources

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  1. ^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.