Paramiacis
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Paramiacis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
Genus: | †Paramiacis Mathis, 1985 |
Species | |
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Paramiacis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. Christian Mathis has defined to make a difference between the miacids from Europe and the American genus Miacis. There are two species of it, P. exilis (Henri Filhol, 1876) and P. teilhardi (Mathis, 1987) - which were long believed to be only sexual dimorphism.
Sources
- The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades edited by Kenneth David Rose and J. David Archibald ISBN 0-8018-8022-X
- Bibliography and Index of Geology by American Geological Institute, Geological Society of America
- 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
- Christian Mathis, "Contribution à la connaissance des Mammifères de Robiac (Éocène supérieur): Creodonta et Carnivora" in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Paris), 1985
- Christian Mathis, "Précisions sur le genre Paramiacis Mathis (Carnivora, Miacidae)" in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Paris), 1987
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