Paramiacis

Paramiacis
Temporal range: 40.0–37.5 Ma
↓
 middle to late Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: †Paramiacis
Mathis, 1985[1]
Type species
†Paramiacis exilis
Filhol, 1876
Species
  • †P. exilis (Filhol, 1876)[2]
  • †P. teilhardi (Mathis, 1987)[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. exilis:
    • Cynodictis exilis (Filhol, 1876)
    • Miacis exilis (Teilhard, 1888)
  • P. teilhardi:
    • Miacis exilis (Guth, 1964)[4]
    • Miacis exilis forme A (Teilhard, 1915)[5]
    • Paramiacis exilis (Mathis, 1985)

Paramiacis ("near Miacis") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe from the middle to late Eocene.[6][7] Species P. exilis and P. teilhardi were long believed to be the same species (P. exilis), with differences that were only represented as an example of sexual dimorphism.

References

  1. ^ Christian Mathis (1985.) "Contribution à la connaissance des Mammifères de Robiac (Éocène supérieur): Creodonta et Carnivora" in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris
  2. ^ H. Filhol (1876.) "Mammifère fossiles nouveaux provenant des dépôt de phosphate de chaux du Quercy." Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 82(1):288-289
  3. ^ Christian Mathis, (1987.) "Précisions sur le genre Paramiacis Mathis (Carnivora, Miacidae)" in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris
  4. ^ Guth, Chr. (1964). "A Propos de Miacis Exilis des Phosphorites du Quercy". Mammalia. 28 (2). doi:10.1515/mamm.1964.28.2.359. S2CID 85058218.
  5. ^ Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1915) "Les carnassiers des phosphorites du Quercy" Annales de Paléontologie, 9, 101–192
  6. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  7. ^ Solé, Floréal (2014). "New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 963–978. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..963S. doi:10.1111/pala.12097. ISSN 1475-4983. S2CID 129314381.
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